Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.