Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Joffre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French military man Joseph Joffre.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Joseph Joffre

Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916. He is best known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. — © Joseph Joffre
If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.
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.
The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.
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