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A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
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John Lothrop Motley
historian, diplomat, academic, writer
1814 – 1877
John Lothrop Motley was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration, Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.
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Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
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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
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
— John Lothrop Motley