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

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936)

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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.

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