Prussia Quotes

The truth is always the strongest argument.

We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

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

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

Rascals, do you want to live forever?

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

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

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

An educated people can be easily governed.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut).

In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.

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.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.