A Quote by John Lothrop Motley
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
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Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
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For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.
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