"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time……" — 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 united, in their slavery to Rome."

— John Lothrop Motley

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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones,…
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God;…
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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