John Lothrop Motley Quotes

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

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  Gold, Force, Thirds

  John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.30

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

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  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

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  Pyramids, Deeds, Stones

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• Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

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  Government, Self, Blood

  "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" by John Lothrop Motley, New York: Harper, vol. 3, part 6, ch. 1, (p. 416), 1861.

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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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  Men, England And America, Class

  John Lothrop Motley (1867). “History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort: With a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada”, p.547

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• Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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  Confidence, Wealth, Confidence And Strength

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

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  Enthusiasm

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.513

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

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  Funny, Luxury, Giving

  Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)

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• When did one man ever civilize a people?

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  Men, People, One Man

  John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.23

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• History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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  Paper, Shows, Barriers

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.241

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• A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

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  Practice, Talent, Increase

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• The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

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  Atheist, Wall, Men

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• The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

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  Netherlands

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.18

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• A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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  Christian, Lawyer, Good Christian

  John Lothrop Motley (2011). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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  Civilization, Mind

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.21

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• The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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  Glitter, Scared, Weak

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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

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  Rome, Careers, Century

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.17

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• Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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  Broken Heart, Country, Patches

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13

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• A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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  Animal, Unbridled Passion, Terrible

  John Lothrop Motley (2011). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

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

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  Order, Two, People

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7

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• The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

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  Improvement, Made, Crusades

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

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  Liberty, Empires, Splendid

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.5

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• In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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  Century, Form, Faded

  John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.25

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