Guess the Quote Game

[ZenGum]

Here's an idea for a new thread: Guess the Quote Game. I don't know if it will work, but let's try.

Here's the procedure:
1. Find an interesting quote, and post it without saying who said it or when.
2. Others can try to guess who said it. Please don't use google - that's too easy.
3. Original posters should check regularly to answer guesses and may give clues if they want.
4. If there are several quotes underway at once, refer to quotes by the number of the original post, rather than copy-replying; to prevent the thread from bloating.

Here's my first quote: it's a bit long and political, but quite interesting, because it is not from this century.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that the war upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation has now become a war of agression (sic) and conquest. I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them and that had this been done the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolonging these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

On behalf of those who are suffering now, I make this protest against the deception which is being practised (sic) upon them; also I believe it may help to destroy the callous complacency with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share and which they have not have enough imagination to realise (sic).

[Rexmons]

The guy V for Vendetta was based on? Guy something.. Can I use google just to verify his name?

[Rexmons]

too late I used it ONLY to verify the name Guy Fawkes?

[ZenGum]

His name's not Guy.
(I had to google V for Vendetta to find out what you meant by that, and a quick skim of wikipedia suggests that, no, there is no connection).

EDIT: Correct country though.

EDIT 2: Initials S. S.

[Drax]

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

[ZenGum]

The answer for quote #1 was:
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon, 3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, July, 1917.
Entitled, Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration.


My guess for quote#5 .... stab in the dark .... Mark Twain?

[Drax]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

My guess for quote#5 .... stab in the dark .... Mark Twain?

Will Rogers

[Drax]

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.