Daily Quote by John Lothrop Motley

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

— John Lothrop Motley

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once…

— John Lothrop Motley

In Flanders fields the poppies blow,

— John McCrae

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

— Henry VIII of England

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

— Michael Flanders

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

— Edmund Waller

“The crowd listened all the more closely for having waited and despaired, especially since this time the bells, ringing softly, demanded a deeper hush.…

— Georges Rodenbach

“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered…

— David Cook

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British…

— Sean Lemass

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long…

— Martin Filler

“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a means of…

— Georges Rodenbach

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering…

— James Connolly

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

— Michael Flanders

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely…

— John McCrae