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Martin Luther quotes

1483–1546 · German reformer

Luther's challenge to the Church started the Protestant Reformation, and his Bible translation shaped modern German.

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2 famous lines credited to Martin Luther that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

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Here I stand, I can do no other.

The trail: Printed in early editions of his speech at Worms (1521), but not in the transcripts of the hearing; he may never have said it.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Actually: Not found in Luther's writings; it first appears in Germany in 1944.