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The people will be free and God alone will be their Lord.

— Thomas Müntzer Highly Provoked Defense (1524)

Das Volk wird frei werden, und Gott will allein der Herr darüber sein!

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as cited in The German Peasants' War and Anabaptist Community of Goods, p. 109

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