Ernst Moritz Arndt

Ernst Moritz Arndt (26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860) was a German nationalist historian, writer and poet.

Quotes

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.
- 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, l. 579