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

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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