John Lothrop Motley was a famous Historian from USA, who lived between April 15, 1814 and May 29, 1877. He/she became 63 years old.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by John, under the main topic Legal.
25 Famous quotes by John Lothrop Motley
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries"
"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs"
"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience"
"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind"
"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career"
"A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold"
"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period"
"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman"
"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron"
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times"
"In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away"
"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"
"A good lawyer is a bad Christian"
"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people"
"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper"
"Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty"
"Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger"
"The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests"
"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands"
"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies"
"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty"
"The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude"
"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves"
