“If my soldiers began to think, not one would remain in the ranks.”

— Frederick II of Prussia

Attributed in J.A. Houlding, Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795 (Oxford, 1981)
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king of Prussia 1712–1786

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