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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.
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.