Codreanu on Wearing the Clothes of Democracy

"We wear the clothes and embrace the forms of democracy. Are they worth anything?"

- Corneliu Codreanu, "A Few Remarks on Democracy"

Founder of the Legion of the Archangel Michael;

more commonly referred to as the Iron Guard.

Remark from Codreanu on the Decline of Romania

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

- Corneliu Codreanu, "For My Legionaries"

Codreanu on the Life and Death of Nations

"A people is not led according to its will; the democratic formula; nor according to the will of one individual: the dictatorial formula. But according to laws. I do not talk here of man-made laws. There are norms, natural laws of life; and there are norms, natural laws of death. Laws of life and laws of death. A nation is headed for life or death according to its respect for one or the other of these laws." 

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 'For My Legionaries' 

Image: Iron Guard funeral procession for Codreanu

A Quote from Codreanu on Service to Homeland

"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." 

- Corneliu Codreanu, 'The Nest Leader's Manual'

A Remark from Evola on Codreanu's Life

"Indeed, it is the very force, and even the very tragedy, of things, which sees to it that the narrative of Codreanu has a particular suggestive power, and we think any fascist should become aware, through it, of the tragic and painful vicissitudes of a struggle which, on the Romanian soil, has repeated the struggle of our own anti-democratic and anti-Jewish revolutions..." 

- Julius Evola, 'The Tragedy of the Iron Guard' 

Image: Codreanu kneeling among the bones of Romanian soldiers...

Codreanu on Struggle, Death, and the Legionary Spirit

"A Legionnaire loves death, for his blood shall cement the future Legionary Romania." 

- Corneliu Codreanu, Nest Leader's Manual

The funeral procession for Corneliu Codreanu (1899-1938), the

leader of the Iron Guard, which sanctified death in the name of struggle

A Remark from Horia Sima on the Emptiness of People

"There is no doubt, that in this world, there are all sorts of people who look nice, but are empty inside..."

- Horia Sima

Horia Sima (1906-1993), Codreanu's successor.