Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Quotes

Finland, Military Leader
June 4, 1867 – January, 27, 1951.

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military leader and statesman. Mannerheim served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Regent of Finland, commander-in-chief of Finland's defence forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and the sixth president of Finland.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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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.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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Officers don't run, only corporals do that

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim