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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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.
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.
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty.
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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.
