Joseph Joffre: The safety of the country is at stake…. We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat…. No faltering c

The safety of the country is at stake…. We must let ourselves be killed on the s — Joseph Joffre

The safety of the country is at stake…. We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat…. No faltering can be tolerated today.

Joseph Joffre

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War is fought by human beings. — Carl von Clausewitz in On War
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Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg. — Friedrich Schiller
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