“It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.”

—  Voltaire

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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 27, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions." by Voltaire?
Voltaire photo
Voltaire167
French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694–1778

Related quotes

George Bernard Shaw photo

“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

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné photo

“Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.”

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696) French noble

Letters, 202.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Abraham Lincoln photo

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Linus Torvalds photo

“The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Linus&#x27; blog: Black and white, 2008-11-02, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-11-02 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html, <br class="br">2000s, 2008

Rabindranath Tagore photo

“YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Grant Morrison photo

“The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

Lyndon B. Johnson photo

“I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming—always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again—but always trying and always gaining.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

1960s, Inaugural address (1965)

Francis Escudero photo

“I was once asked why I was always on the wrong side, I said, "probably not just on your side." In a democracy, there isn't supposed to be a wrong or right side. Just what the majority wants, nothing more.”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

"Who's afraid of People Power", Philippine Graphic, 31 January 2005, p. 28, ISSN 119-206X.
2005

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“These savages and their false gods! I grow weary of them. Yet they are necessary; the priests and the gods of slaves always fight on the side of the Masters. It is a rule of nature.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 62)

Christopher Hitchens photo

“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuloBOYolE&amp;t=14m12s <br class="br">2010s, 2010

Related topics