John Lothrop Motley Quotes

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley

Legal, Good, Bad

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

Woman, Terrible, Animal

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

Power, Rest, Force

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

Mind, Single, Improvised

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

Long, Lie, Culture

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

Experience, Place, Enthusiasm

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

Career, Full, Longer

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

Life, Give, Luxuries

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

History, Shows, Paper

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

Two, While, Says

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

Old, Away, Later

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

Great, Made, Condition

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

Weak, Scared, Servitude

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

Soldiers, Band, Gigantic

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

History, Becomes, Franks

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

Times, Rise, Modern

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

Liberty, Grave, Empire

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

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

Whole, Forests, Territory

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

Time, Again, Once

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

Daily, Stronger, Holland

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

Country, Broken, Whole

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
John Lothrop Motley

Strength, Confidence, Wealth

When did one man ever civilize a people?
John Lothrop Motley

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

Great, Germans, Assembly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 15, 1814

Died: May 29, 1877

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