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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
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.
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.
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.