John Lothrop Motley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Gold #Force #Thirds
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Christian #Lawyer #Good Christian
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Civilization #Mind
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Century #Form
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Enthusiasm
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Paper #Shows #Barriers
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Improvement #Made #Crusades
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Liberty #Empires #Splendid
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Practice #Talent #Increase
When did one man ever civilize a people?
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Men #People
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Order #Two #People
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Lying #Long #Culture
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Rome #Careers #Century
Local self-governmentâ€¦is the life-blood of liberty.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Government #Self #Blood
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Pyramids #Deeds #Stones
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Luxury #Giving
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Atheist #Wall #Men
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Glitter #Scared #Weak
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Animal #Terrible
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Broken Heart #Country #Patches
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Confidence #Wealth
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
-- John Lothrop Motley

#Netherlands

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