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

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

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

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.