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  • To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

    John Lothrop Motley (1867). “History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort: With a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada”, p.547