32 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

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

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

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

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.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

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.

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

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.