Tag: John Lothrop Motley

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

John Lothrop Motley

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

John Lothrop Motley

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.

John Lothrop Motley

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

John Lothrop Motley