John Lothrop Motley's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Historian
Nation: American
Biography of John Lothrop Motley
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Tags: Force, Power, RestA new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Tags: Improvised, Mind, SingleA soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Tags: Culture, Lie, LongerEnthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
Tags: Enthusiasm, Experience, PlaceFor a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
Tags: Career, Full, LongerIn Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Tags: Says, Slaves, WhileThe ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
Tags: Scared, Servitude, WeakThe history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Tags: Becomes, History, ThereforeThe rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
Tags: Modern, Rise, TimesThe splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
Tags: Empire, Grave, LibertyThus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
Tags: Broken, Country, WholeWealth brings strength, strength confidence.
Tags: Confidence, Strength, WealthThus 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.
Tags: Again, Once, Time