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John Lothrop Motley
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“Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.”
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 1, p. 416.
“As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street.”
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 7, p. 627.
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.”
John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Motley's conversation by his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1858), ch. 6, p. 143.