Quotes from John Lothrop Motley

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.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

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

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.

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.