Some 18th Century
Quotable Quotes

Frederick the Great
Colonel Christian Fridrich von Diericke


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

--Frederick the Great in a letter to his brother, Prince Henry, 21 April 1759

"I am Prussian."

--Colonel Christian Fridrich von Diericke, the commander of Zittau's response when invited to capitulate on favorable terms (submitted by Neil Cogswell)

"A soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can."

--Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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