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George Bancroft
October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891
Nationality: American
Category: Historian
Subcategory: American Historian

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

   

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

   

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

   

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

   

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

   

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

   

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

   

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

   

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

   

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

   

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

   

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

    Topics: Government

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

   

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

   

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