4 Quotes by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid – will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country.

Officers don’t run, only corporals do that.

The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor – the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.