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