Quote #18
The monarch is a perpetual sentinel, who must watch... enemies of the state... it is not that he should remain the shadow of authority, but that he should fulfill [his] duties.
More from Frederick II of Prussia
- The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
- The priest will stay. If he does not want to get up with the others on Judgement Day, he may well keep resting on his back.
- That the arrested man has committed blasphemy is a proof that he does not know God. That he has slandered me, I pardon him. But for his ins…
- Audacity, audacity, always audacity!
- Religions must all be tolerated and the state has to keep an eye that none of them shall derogate the other, because here everyone must fin…
- I am the first servant of my state.
- Diplomacy without power is like an orchestra without instruments.
- Before I endorse this sentence, I am curious to hear of the measures you want to employ for making a simple soldier pay 2000 Taler.