26 Quotes by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn’t give up. He was a new kind of Jesus.

If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting against an old and corrupt world in the name of a new one.

The individual within the framework and in the service of his people. The people within the framework and in the service of their God and of God’s laws. Whoever shall understand these things will be victorious even if he be alone. Whoever shall not understand will be defeated.

I see the true destiny of our people as lying not in time but in eternity. Political achievements, culture, struggles and national greatness are means, not ends in themselves. The ultimate goal is not life but resurrection.

Beyond the nation, we acknowledge those eternal and immutable principles in the name of which one must be ready to fight and die, subordinating all things to them, with no less readiness than if he were fighting for his own existence and right to life. Truth and honour, for instance, are metaphysical principles that we consider higher than our very nation.

May God accept my suffering, for the well-being and prosperity of our Nation. Pain upon pain, suffering upon suffering, agony upon agony, wound upon wound in our bodies and in our souls, fall after fall: in this way shall we conquer.

We have first seized the front line of trenches, then the second and the third, and our adversary, shut up in his retreat, in the safety which it offers, is now firing at us, not knowing that we would like nothing better than to come to his aid against the real enemy.