Famous Quotes / Frederick The Great
16 Quotations by Frederick The Great
- 1. A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
- 2. An educated people can be easily governed.
- 3. Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
- 4. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
- 5. Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
- 6. I love opposition that has convictions.
- 7. I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
- 8. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
- 9. If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
- 10. In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
- 11. It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most ...
- 12. Our work is to present things that are as they are.
- 13. Rogues, would you live forever?
- 14. Talents go by nature not by birth.
- 15. The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th ...
- 16. They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go ...