Frederick Great Quotations

Don't forget your great guns which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings

Artillery lends dignity to what might otherwise be a vulgar brawl

You rogues, do you want to live for ever?

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society

Superstition is the weakness of the human mind; it is inherent in that mind; it has always been, and always will be

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The King of England changes his ministers as often as he changes his shirts.