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For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard) QUOTES

For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard) QUOTES

1 " The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

2 " Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture is international in its brilliance but national in origin. Someone made a fine comparison: bread and wheat may be internationally consumed, but they always bear the imprint of the soil from which they came. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

3 " A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

4 " Generations can follow this destiny, can stay close to it or depart from it, having thus the capability of giving to their nation a maximum of life and honor or a maximum of dishonor and shame. Sometimes only isolated individuals, abandoned by their generation, can reach this destiny. In that moment, they are the people, they speak in its name. All the millions of dead and of the martyrs of the past are with them, as well as the nation's life of tomorrow. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

5 " Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

6 " From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle and victory having to extend even beyond the material world into the realm of invisible enemies, the powers of evil. Everything that our mind can imagine as more beautiful spiritually; everything the proudest that our race can produce, greater, more just, more powerful, wiser, purer, more diligent and more heroic, this is what the Legionary school must give us! A man in whom all the possibilities of human grandeur that are implanted by God in the blood of our people be developed to the maximum. This hero, the product of Legionary education, will also know how to elaborate programs; will also know how to solve the Jewish problem; will also know how to organize the state well; will also know how to convince other Romanians; and if not, he will know how to win, for that is why he is a hero. This hero, this Legionary of bravery, labour, and justice, with the powers God implanted in his soul, will lead our Fatherland on the road of its glory. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

7 " If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

8 " Wherever the Legionary’s hand and soul show up, a garden appears. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

9 " There are moments when masses establish contact with their nation's spirit. These are the moments of providence. Masses then see their nation in its entire history, and feel its moments of glory, as well as those of defeat. Then they can clearly feel turbulent events in the future. That contact with the immortal and collective nation's spirit is feverish and trembling. When that happens, people cry. It is probably some kind of national mystery, which some criticize, because they don't know what it represents, and others struggle to define it, because they have never felt it.
If the Christian mystery, which tends to ecstasy, is contact between Man and God, through, "ascent from human to divine nature", then the national mystery is nothing more than man's contact, or contact of mass, with the spirit of its nation. Not intellectually, for it could be the case with any historian, but live, in their hearts. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)

10 " A country has the Jews it deserves. Just as mosquitoes can thrive and settle only in swamps, likewise the former can only thrive in the swamps of our sins. "

― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , For My Legionaries (the Iron Guard)