All George Bancroft Quotes
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George Bancroft
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
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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.
George Bancroft
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft
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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.
George Bancroft
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft
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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.
George Bancroft
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
George Bancroft
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft
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