Soldiers! I have fought on many battlefields, but I have not yet seen warriors like you. I am proud of you as if you were my own children, as proud of a man of the fells in the North as of a son of the plains of Ostrobothnia, the forests of Karelia, the hills of Savo, the fertile fields of Häme and Satakunta, the temperate groves of Uusimaa and Southwest Finland. I am as proud of the sacrifice offered by a son of a poor hut as by a rich one.
— CARL GUSTAF EMIL MANNERHEIM