Talk:Unity makes strength

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Radek in topic Latin phrase?

Latin phrase? edit

How can this motto derive from a phrase with totally different meaning and significance? If the translatrion of concordia is concord, how can it perform in unity? Neither growth of small things can be misunderstood with strenght. Antique Dutch meaning was: if we, six small states, shall live in mutual friendship, we will rise in international consideration. Not unity, but friendship among partners. Not strenght, but esteem. Story confirms: the Dutch Republic was, indeed, a republic, not an union under a king. And the Dutch Republic, after its independence, has not increased its military strenght, but attended its domestic politics and developed the foreign trade. --Radek (talk) 11:24, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


It looks like it was edited by a dutch PSV supporter. The concept can be found even in biblical texts, so you can't attribute it to one place/time.

Just insufficient argument.
No other contribution/explanation? (eventually signed)
--Radek (talk) 10:42, 24 February 2020 (UTC)Reply