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John Lothrop Motley
American
Historian
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Soldiers
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Leading
#Events
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Liberty
#Grave
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#History
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Country
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Strength
#Confidence
#Wealth
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#People
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Time
#First
#Force
When did one man ever civilize a people?
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#People
#Man
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Woman
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.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Time
#First
#United
#Slavery
#Rome
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Christian
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Improvement
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Culture
#Lie
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Power
#Force
#Gold
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Experience
#Enthusiasm
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Now
#Career
#Nations
#Rome
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Life
#Will
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#History
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#People
#Nobility
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Old
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
John Lothrop Motley,
American
Historian
#Civilization
#Mind