A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
John Lothrop Motley
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
John Lothrop Motley
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
John Lothrop Motley
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
John Lothrop Motley
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
John Lothrop Motley
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.