1814 – 1877 • American • Historian
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
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.
