finnfellow

Our fate is hard, now that we are compelled to give up to an alien race, a race with a life philosophy and moral values different from ours, land which for centuries we have cultivated in sweat and labour. Yet, we must put our shoulders to the wheel, in order that we may prepare on the soil left to us a home for those rendered homeless and an improved livelihood for all, and as before we must be ready to defend our diminished Fatherland with the same resolution and the same fire with which we defended our undivided Fatherland.

We are proudly conscious of the historic duty which we shall continue to fulfil; the defence of that Western civilisation which has been our heritage for centuries, but we know also that we have paid to the very last penny any debt we may have owed the West.

Soldiers!
I have fought on many a battlefield, but never have I seen such warriors as you. I am as proud of you as if you were my own children; I am as proud of the man from the northern fells as of the son of Ostrobothnia's plains, of the Karelian forests, the hills of Savo, the fertile fields of Häme and Satakunta, the leafy glades of Uusimaa and Varsinais-Suomi. I am equally proud of the sacrifice of the factory worker and the poor crofter as of that of the wealthy.

- C. G. E. Mannerheim

Finland was the only country in the world, which made relatively great efforts to bring the bodies of fallen soldiers back, to be buried in their home county.
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*Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum!*

- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

" Don't go in if you don't know how to get out" (lol)

- Colin Powell

* Before the Winter War, Molotov asked how many men Finland would be able to set against the soviet army. Paasikivi, who was the main negotiator for the Finns, replied that about half a million men. Molotov laughed and said: What if we put one million men against your half a million? Paasikivi silently stood up and was leaving the room. Molotov asked where he was going to. To telegraph back to Finland and tell them to give another bullet to each man, Paasikivi replied.