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"Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty."
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John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration, Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confede
"Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty."
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
"As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street."