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

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

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments ….

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty..

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities..

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due..

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

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands..

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper..

A good lawyer is a bad Christian..

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience..

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice..

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

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period..

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….

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence..

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

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..

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

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