Did Friedrich Engels really say 'The will of the people is the will of God.'?

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The will of the people is the will of God.

— Friedrich Engels Modern · Communist Manifesto co-author

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This is a classical Latin proverb ('Vox populi, vox Dei'), not a direct quote from Engels, though he might have used it in a rhetorical sense.

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