John Lothrop Motley Quotes & Sayings
25 most famous John Lothrop Motley quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.”
“The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.”
“The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.”
“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.”
“A good lawyer is a bad Christian.”
“The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.”
“The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.”
“A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.”
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
“In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.”
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