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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
— John Lothrop Motley
Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.
— Susa Young Gates
When did one man ever civilize a people?
— John Lothrop Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
— John Lothrop Motley
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
— John Lothrop Motley
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
— Richard Chenevix Trench
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
— John Lothrop Motley
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
— John Lothrop Motley
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
— John Lothrop Motley
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
— John Lothrop Motley
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
— John Lothrop Motley
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
— John Lothrop Motley
Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.
— Jack Kelly
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
— John Lothrop Motley
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
— John Lothrop Motley
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
— John Lothrop Motley
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
— John Lothrop Motley
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
— John Lothrop Motley
Don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you ...
— John Geddes
Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Half Asleep in Frogg pajamas.
— Tom Robbins
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
— John Lothrop Motley
I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
— John Lothrop Motley
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
— John Lothrop Motley
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
— John Lothrop Motley
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Experiencing life as a victim instead of living it purposefully with a feeling of self-control.
— Henry Cloud
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
— John Lothrop Motley
Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
— John Lothrop Motley
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
— John Lothrop Motley
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
— John Lothrop Motley
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
— John Lothrop Motley