"Unsanctioned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... streets with blood, but education lifts the citizens more and more out of the original slough. They learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft, having acquired something of each. Gold in the end, unsanctioned by right divine, weighs up the other forces, supernatural as they are. And so, struggling along their appointed path, making cloth, making money, making treaties with great kingdoms, making war by land and sea, ringing great bells, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley |
