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Ernst Moritz Arndt
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“The God, who made earth's iron, would create no slave; therefore he gave the sabre, the sword, and the spear, for man's right hand. Hence he imbued him with courage, lent accents of wrath to freedom's voice, that he might maintain the feud till death.”
Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vaterlandslied ('Song of the Fatherland') st. 1, as translated by Craufurd Tait Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors, rev. ed. (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1880) p. 1. Compare: Lucan, Pharsalia, b. 4…