List of John Lothrop Motley Quotes

In Gaul Were Two Orders, The Nobility And The Priesthood, While The People, Says Caesar, Were All Slaves.

In The Tenth Century The Old Batavian And Later Roman Forms Have Faded Away.

The Crusades Made Great Improvement In The Condition Of The Serfs.

The Splendid Empire Of Charles The Fifth Was Erected Upon The Grave Of Liberty.

A Terrible Animal, Indeed, Is An Unbridled Woman.

Thus The Whole Country Was Broken Into Many Shreds And Patches Of Sovereignty.

For A Century Longer, Rome Still Retains Its Outward Form, But The Swarming Nations Are Now In Full Career.

The Ferocious Inroads Of The Normans Scared Many Weak And Timid Persons Into Servitude.

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.

A Good Lawyer Is A Bad Christian.

A New Civilization Was Not To Be Improvised By A Single Mind.

A Talent For Repartee Is One That Increases With Practice.