"My people and I," he said, "have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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Attributed by Thomas Babington Macaulay in a review of "Frederic the Great and his Times. Edited, with an Introduction, by Thomas Campbell, Esq". Edinburgh Review, ISSN 1751-8482, 04/1842, Volume 75, Issue 151, p. 218
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Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)Frederick II of Prussia
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