32 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
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With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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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.
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The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
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The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
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To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
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