We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.