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.
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 (1918β1919), as commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during the period of World War II (1939β1945), as Marshal of Finland (1942β), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944β1946).
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