Fridrich II. Veliký nejznámější citáty
Roku 1757 při bitvě u Kolína, když jeho vojáci ustupovali před Rakušany (též se uvádí „Kanálie, to chcete žít věčně?“) Kerls, wollt ihr denn ewig leben? (Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben?)
„Kdyby mí vojáci začali přemýšlet, nezůstal by u vojska ani jediný.“
Varianta: Kdyby moji vojáci začali přemýšlet, nezůstal by v armádě ani jeden z nich.
Fridrich II. Veliký citáty a výroky
„Stát vždycky potřebuje trochu čerstvé krve, mám pro bastardy pochopení.“
Zdroj: [Mevald Vodičková, Jarmila, 5 levobočků českých králů, History revue, 2010, leden, 1, 90]
též se uvádí „Kanálie, to chcete žít věčně?“
„Zradíte někoho? Pak se bojte, že budete zrazeni. Zabijete někoho? Pak se obávejte ruky svých žáků.“
Zdroj: Mertl, Jan, ed.: Z politických spisů Fridricha II. Velikého, krále pruského, s. 96
Fridrich II. Veliký: Citáty anglicky
“Rascals, would you live forever?”
To hesitant guards at the battle of Kolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kol%C3%ADn#Battle, 18 June 1757
Attributed in E. M. Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Kerels, wollt ihr den euwig leben?" Frederick the Great, by David Fraser, Penguin 2000, p. 353 Other versions have it: "Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?" (Dogs, do you want to live for ever?).
Attributed
“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”
Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace! http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8dscs10.txt
We must dare, dare again, always dare!
Georges Danton, speech, Assemblée legislative, Paris (1792-09-02), reported in Le Moniteur (1792-09-04)
Misattributed
1777; quoted by Bert L. Vallée, Alcohol in the Western World, Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 6 (June), 1998, pp. 80-85
Kindle edition
Attributed
Je voulus faire un jet d’eau dans mon jardin; Euler calcula l’effort des roues pour faire monter l’eau dans un bassin, d’où elle devait retomber par des canaux, afin de jaillir à Sans-Souci. Mon moulin a été exécuté géométriquement, et il n’a pu élever une goutte d’eau à cinquante pas du bassin. Vanité des vanités! vanité de la géométrie!
Letter H 7434 from Frederick to Voltaire (1778-01-25)
Zdroj: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
“If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.”
Attributed in J.A. Houlding, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 (Oxford, 1981)
Attributed
Preface to “Histoire de mon temps”, Works (1743), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 82
Zdroj: Speech at the Academy of Berlin of 27 January 1772 (inside Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, Saggio sopra i principali metodi d'istruire i fanciulli https://books.google.it/books?id=BUdCqC_j9z8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=it&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false - 1819 - pp. 12-13 )
Zdroj: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 5 : How It Is Necessary To Control The Cities, Or The Principalities, Which Are Controlled By Their Own Laws Before They Were Conquered
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 37 from Frederick to Voltaire (June 1738)
Attributed by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great (1882), pg 48.
Repeated by Thomas Babington Macaulay in a review of "Frederick the Great and his Times. Edited, with an Introduction, by Thomas Campbell, Esq". Edinburgh Review, ISSN 1751-8482, 04/1842, Volume 75, Issue 151, p. 241-242, though it does not appear in the original work.
Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Attributed
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)
Zdroj: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 1 : What A Strong Prince Really Is, And How One Can Reach That Point
Ich empfinde für das göttliche Wesen die tiefste Verehrung und hüte mich deshalb sehr, ihm ein ungerechtes, wankelmütiges Verhalten zuzuschreiben, das man beim geringsten Sterblichen verurteilen würde. Aus diesem Grunde, liebe Schwester, glaube ich lieber nicht, dass das allmächtige, gütige Wesen sich im mindesten um die menschlichen Angelegenheiten kümmert. Vielmehr schreibe ich alles, was geschieht, den Geschöpfen und notwendigen Wirkungen unberechenbarer Ursachen zu und beuge mich schweigend vor diesem anbetungswürdigen Wesen, indem ich meine Unwissenheit über seine Wege eingestehe, die mir zu offenbaren seiner göttlichen Weisheit nicht gefallen hat.
Letter to princess Amalie von Preußen
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 221 from Frederick to Voltaire (1777-11-25)
Zdroj: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 6 : New States That The Prince Acquires By His Valor And His Own Weapons
Zdroj: Anti-Machiavel, Ch. 5 : How It Is Necessary To Control The Cities, Or The Principalities, Which Are Controlled By Their Own Laws Before They Were Conquered
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 141 from Frederick to Voltaire (1759-07-02)
“Like a long boat which follows in the wake of the warship to which it is tied.”
On the decline of the Dutch Republic subject to British power
Attributed in T. C. W. Blanning, The Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Attributed
Military Instructions (1747), Article II: Of the Subsistence of Troops, and of Provisions http://www.sonshi.com/frederickthegreat1-2.html
