As a rule God is on the side of the big squadrons as against the small ones.

Cp. Tacitus, Histories, IV, 17: Deos fortioribus adesse.—"The gods are on the side of the strongest." Voltaire, in his Epistle à M. le Riche (6 February 1770) writtes: Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit. Il est vrai qu'il est augmenté; mais ce n’est rien en comparaison des sots, et par malheur on dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.—"The number of the wise will be always small. It is true that it has been largely increased; but it is nothing in comparison with the number of fools, and unfortunately they say that God always favours the heaviest battalions."