A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
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.
When did one man ever civilize a people?