The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

- John Lothrop Motley

When did one man ever civilize a people?

- John Lothrop Motley

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

- John Lothrop Motley

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

- John Lothrop Motley

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

- John Lothrop Motley

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

- John Lothrop Motley

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

- John Lothrop Motley

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

- John Lothrop Motley

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

- John Lothrop Motley

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

- John Lothrop Motley

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

- John Lothrop Motley

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

- John Lothrop Motley

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

- John Lothrop Motley

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

- John Lothrop Motley

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

- John Lothrop Motley

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

- John Lothrop Motley

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

- John Lothrop Motley

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

- John Lothrop Motley

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

- John Lothrop Motley

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

- John Lothrop Motley