Do right and do not be afraid of anyone

Truth thaler, 1597

Do right and don't be afraid of anyone is a motto that Ernst Biesten and Norbert Blüm , among others, professed . The Latin idiom is "Recte fac, neminem time".

References

“Do right and fear nothing!” Says the first stanza of the poem Teutscher Trost by Ernst Moritz Arndt , 1813.

The modification “I do right and do not shy away from an enemy” can be found in Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller , 1804.

“Fear God, do right, and be afraid of no one.” It says in the work The sincere and enthusiastic country preacher: on all Sundays of the whole year. by Gregorius Fritz from 1730.

“Fear God, do right and be afraid of nobody, because what can the dust do to you.” Is a variant in the devotional book Heavenly Joyful Meal of the Children of God on Earth by Johann Rittmeyer († 1698).

“He who is right must not be afraid” is the version in German language and wisdom. by Georg Henisch , 1616.

A truth thaler from Heinrich Julius , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , from 1597 was embossed with “RECTE FACIENDO NEMINEM TIMEAS” (if you do the right thing (literally: do the right thing) you may not fear anyone).

"Fear Got, Thue right, Schew nobody." It says in the writing Goltbergensis Silesius scribebat Seruestae by Melchior Kyferus from the year 1592.

Individual evidence

↑ "Do right and don't be afraid of anyone!" Serious beasts. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
↑ WORLD: "Say goodbye, brothers - but not so soon" . In: THE WORLD . February 14, 1996 ( welt.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
↑ Zeno: Literature in full text: Ernst Moritz Arndt: Works. Part 1: Poems, Berlin a. a. 1912, pp. 132-133 .: ... Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Schiller_Wilhelm_Tell_109.jpg
↑ The sincere and enthusiastic country preacher: on all Sundays of the whole year . 1730 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2020]).
↑ https://books.google.de/books?id=ycMKAQAAMAAJ , page 78
↑ Teutsche language and Weisz awareness. Thesaurus linguae et sapientiae germanicae, in quo vocabula omnia germanica ... continentur et latine redduntur. Adjectae sunt quoque dictionibus plerisque anglicae, bohemicae, Gallicae, etc Graecae . Francus, 1616 ( google.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
↑ Helmut Kahnt: Das große Münzlexikon… (2005), p. 515: Spruch (front)
^ Wolfgang Harms, German Historical Museum: Wittenberger Gelehrtenstammbuch: Text; Facsimile . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-932776-76-2 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2020]).

[1] "Do right and don't be afraid of anyone!" Serious beasts. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .

[2] WORLD: "Say goodbye, brothers - but not so soon" . In: THE WORLD . February 14, 1996 ( welt.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).

[3] Zeno: Literature in full text: Ernst Moritz Arndt: Works. Part 1: Poems, Berlin a. a. 1912, pp. 132-133 .: ... Retrieved April 25, 2020 .

[4] ttps://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:De_Schiller_Wilhelm_Tell_109.jpg

[5] The sincere and enthusiastic country preacher: on all Sundays of the whole year . 1730 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2020]).

[6] ttps://books.google.de/books?id=ycMKAQAAMAAJ , page 78

[7] Teutsche language and Weisz awareness. Thesaurus linguae et sapientiae germanicae, in quo vocabula omnia germanica ... continentur et latine redduntur. Adjectae sunt quoque dictionibus plerisque anglicae, bohemicae, Gallicae, etc Graecae . Francus, 1616 ( google.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).

[8] Helmut Kahnt: Das große Münzlexikon… (2005), p. 515: Spruch (front)

[9] Wolfgang Harms, German Historical Museum: Wittenberger Gelehrtenstammbuch: Text; Facsimile . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-932776-76-2 ( google.de [accessed on April 25, 2020]).