Joseph Joffre Quotes

• The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

  Joseph Joffre

  Discipline, Triumph

  Speech at the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn (1917), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922.

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• 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.

  Joseph Joffre

  Country, War, Safety

  General Joseph Joffre's proclamation, September 6, 1914.

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• If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

  Joseph Joffre

  War, Allies, Twenties

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