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Ernst Jünger

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it follows that, among real men, what counts is deeds, not words; and then it comes of itself, when such are the relations between men and their leaders, that instead of opposition there is harmony between them. The leader is merely a clearer expression of the common will and an example of life and death. And there is no science in all this. It is a practical quality, the simple manly commonsense that is native to a sound and vigorous race.”

Ernst Jünger, Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918
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Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918 Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918 by Ernst Jünger
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