The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop MotleyGive us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John Lothrop MotleyWith the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
John Lothrop MotleyThe gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
John Lothrop MotleyIn the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
John Lothrop MotleyA new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
John Lothrop MotleyThe crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
John Lothrop MotleyThus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop MotleyThus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
John Lothrop MotleyThe sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
John Lothrop MotleyThe whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
John Lothrop MotleyThe history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
John Lothrop Motley