John Lothrop Motley (American - Historian)
April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
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