Netherlands Quotes

The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.

Free thought is a virtue that cannot be crushed

…the dregs of European Society, ingested by the great maw of the Dutch East India company with its insatiable appetite for manpower…uneducated louts from the heart of Germany.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The Dutch Reformed Church had begun that process of adapting theology to suit the interests of its members, which was to culminate in its blessing apartheid, by discouraging conversions which would bring the obligation of receiving non—Europeans as full members of the community.

This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

Radical changes will come to the Netherlands. We stand for fundamental choices, and we need to make the right ones.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another’s, but under nature everything belongs to all

Never prevent men from forming judgments according to their intellect

It was highly necessary…and a matter of course, that a good Dutch colony shall be planted and reared here.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

Countries like France, Italy and the Netherlands may pay lip service to inclusion, but the ethos in those places is that immigrants can never really become French, Italian or Dutch, no matter what their passports say. The emphasis is on tolerance and respect, but there’s no real expectation that foreign nationals fit in.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.

Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

The Dutch are a very practical people.

If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

A culture that generates more backwardness with every generation.

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

No man's mind can possibly lie wholly at the disposition of another, for no one can willingly transfer his natural right of free reason and judgment, or be compelled to do so.