Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Finnish president Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during the period of World War II (1939–1945), as Marshal of Finland (1942–), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).

For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country β€” Β© Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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
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