John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motleywas an American author, best known for his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. He was also a diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth15 April 1814
CountryUnited States of America
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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
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History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
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The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
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When did one man ever civilize a people?
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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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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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.