John Lothrop Motley Quotes

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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

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As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.
Of William of Orange

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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

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