Letters, 202.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.
Letter to François-Louis-Henri Leriche (6 February 1770)
In his Notebooks (c.1735-c.1750), Voltaire wrote: God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Citas
“God is on the side of the big battalions.”
George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan
Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)
1920s
“Losers always meet with mockery, Heaven sides with the fortunate.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot:
sælden pflihtær dem half got.
Bk. 6, st. 289, line 11; p. 151.
Parzival
“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Fragment 842.
Phædra
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
“When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 275
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
