Frederick the Great Quotes
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars afterwards to demonstrate my perfect right.
Frederick II, 1712-1786, [The Great], King of Prussia, 1756
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it
He was particularly irate about politicians using junk science that would support their point of view, even though the politicians clearly had scientists in their districts who could tell the politicians that the science was poor, but they really did not care if their position was supported.
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
Xerxes was as the Texans say, “All hat and no cattle.” He had delusions of grandeur and was quite unsuccessful as a conqueror.
This was written under the name of Ragnar Redbeard. There are a few scholars who believe that it was written by Jack London, but most credit Desmond.
Frederick II was a Prussian king and military leader who ruled the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, reigning longer than any other Hohenzollern king. His most significant accomplishments during his reign included his reorganization of Prussian armies, his military successes in the Silesian wars and the Partitions of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Frederick was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia and declared himself King of Prussia after annexing strategic parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a leading military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (German: Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed "The Old Fritz" (German: "Der Alte Fritz") by the Prussian people and eventually the rest of Germany.
