No one need think that the world can be ruled…

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Misattributed

Martin Luther, Von Kaufhandlung und Wucher, 1524, (Vol. XV, p. 302, of the Weimar edition of Luther’s works)

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