Frederick The Great/reign 1740%e2%80%931786

Famous quotes containing the words frederick the great, frederick the, frederick and/or reign:

    “Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.”
    —Frederick The Great (1712–1786)

    “Rogues, would you live forever?”
    —Frederick The Great (1712–1786)

    “Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically
    digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The
    knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science.”
    —John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871)

    “Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)