It is still difficult to realise that the moment has actually come at last when 1 shall have no peace of mind any more until the War is over. Testament of Youth (1933)
If modern youth has realized, as I believe it has, that to live for one's country is a finer type of patriotism than to die for it, then the youth of my generation will not, after all, have laid down the best of its life in vain.