"The sword - the first, for a time……" — John Lothrop Motley
"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."
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John Lothrop Motley
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29 Quotes by John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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