"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones,…
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
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A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
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The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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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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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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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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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
— George Canning
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through…
— Amy Chua
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and…
— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak…
— Peter Kreeft
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
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I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish.…
— Janeane Garofalo
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My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a…
— Tyler Florence
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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
— Michael Caine
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In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings…
— Richard Lindzen
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