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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

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

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

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

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

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

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

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

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

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

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

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

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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

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

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

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

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