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