In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

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

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