Frederick William Iii Quotes

“Engels’ Conditions in Germany, one of his early works, contains an excellent pen-portrait of this king.

‘The Kingdom of Prussia […] was then governed by Frederick William III, nicknamed The Just, one of the greatest blockheads to ever grace a throne. Born to be a corporal and to inspect the buttons of an army; dissolute, without passion, and a morality-monger

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― Mark Borisovich Mitin, Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism