“For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame.
And be shot at for sixpence a day.”

— Charles Dibdin

Letters (c. 1774).

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Charles Dibdin 5

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor 1745–1814

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2005)

“Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

Reflections

“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 78

“Ah woe is me, through all my days
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great men’s praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not.”

Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) American writer

The Way to Arcady (1892).

“One saw I was alive. Loosened
his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

Shooting Stars.
Standing Female Nude (1985)

“The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.”

Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948) former Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of War executed in 1948

Note signed by Tojo (June 1945), left at a camp during the Bataan Death March http://home.att.net/~betsynewmark3/DebateonBomb.htm. Possible forgery since Tojo was no longer in power for over a year at the time of the discovery. Also, the Japanese homeland was not threatened with invasion at the time and it was common sense that the Philippines would be attacked before.
1940s