Hardly one among you but has distinguished himself by some nobly memorable action: all these services to the State and me I know well, and will never forget.
"I flatter myself, therefore, that in this case too nothing will be wanting which the State has a right to expect of your valor.

The hour is at hand.

I should think I had done nothing, if I left the Austrians in possession of Silesia.

Let me apprise you, then: I intend, in spite of the Rules of Art, to attack Prince Karl's Army, which is nearly thrice our strength, wherever I find it.

The question is not of his numbers, or the strength of his position: all this, by courage, by the skill of our methods, we will try to make good.