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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John L. Motley

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

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

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
John L. Motley

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
John L. Motley

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

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
John L. Motley

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

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

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
John L. Motley

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

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

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
John L. Motley

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

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

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

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
John L. Motley

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 L. Motley

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

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

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
John L. Motley

When did one man ever civilize a people?
John L. Motley

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


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