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
order two people
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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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.
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Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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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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To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.