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Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Quotes

1899–1938 Romania

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (September 13, 1899 – November 30, 1938) was a Romanian politician of the far right, the founder of the Iron Guard or The Legion of the Archangel Michael (also known as the Legionary Movement), an ultra-nationalist and violently antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period. Generally seen as the main variety of local fascism, and noted for its mystical and Romanian Orthodox-inspired revolutionary message, it gained prominence on the Romanian political stage, coming into conflict with the political establishment and the democratic forces, and of

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We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

Romania is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

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

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The Legionaries have been called by God to sound the trumpet for the resurrection of Romania after centuries of darkness and oppression.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

A people becomes aware of its existence when it becomes aware of its entirety, not only of its component parts and their individual interests.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

Are we going to be the weak and cowardly generation that will relinquish, under threats, the Rumanian destiny and renounce our national mission?

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

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.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

We shall create a spiritual atmosphere, a moral atmosphere, in which the heroic man may be born and on which he can thrive. This hero will lead our people on the road of its greatness.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

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.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

Mussolini has destroyed communism and Freemasonry; he implicitly declared war upon Judaism too.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

There is, among all those various parts of the world who serve their people, a kinship of sympathy, as there is such a kinship among those who labour for the destruction of peoples.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The type of man who lives nowadays in the Romanian political scene, I have already found in history: under his rule, nations died and states were destroyed.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The Politician's goal is to build a fortune, ours is to build our homeland flowering and strong. For her we will work and we will build. For her we will make each Romanian a hero, ready to fight, ready to sacrifice, ready to die.

The Nest Leader's Manual (1933)

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

The Nest Leader's Manual (1933)

But I repeat my question: "Who indicates everyone's place within an elite and who sizes up everyone? Who establishes the selection and consecrates the members of the new elite?" I answer: "The previous elite."

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The Jewish problem is no utopia, but a grave life and death problem for the Romanian nation, the country's leaders grouped by political parties becoming more and more like toys in the hands of the Judaic manipulators.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

We have studied the Jewish problem scientifically. Essentially it is an abnormal situation that the Jews should live among other races, whereby they violate the great natural law that every race shall live in its own country.

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

For making bread, shoes, ploughs, farming, running a streetcar, one must be specialized. Is there no need for specialization when it comes to the most demanding leadership, that of a nation? Does one not have to possess certain qualities?

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.