All John Lothrop Motley Quotes
- Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty. Blood
- 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… Builder
- Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. Dispense
- 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… All
- A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman. Animal
- The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude. Ferocious
- Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. Broken
- Wealth brings strength, strength confidence. Brings
- For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. Career
- A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. Culture
- In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. All
- A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. Civilization
- In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. Batavian
- Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience. Enthusiasm
- History shows how feeble are barriers of paper. Barriers
- The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. Condition
- The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. Charles
- A good lawyer is a bad Christian. Bad
- A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold. Becomes
- The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies. Band