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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.
General Joffre—Proclamation. Sept. 6, 1914. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60. | ||