Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.