George Bancroft Quotes

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

God, Possible, Himself

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

Person, Times, Tongue

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

Beauty, Truth, Justice

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

Respect, Envy, Common

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

Respect, Rights, Authority

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

Conscience, Lives, Mirror

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft

Public, Wisest, Wiser

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

Mind, Progress, Wealth

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

Men, Another, Rights

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

Ignorance, Second, Interest

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

Truth, Enough, Lives

Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft

Vice, Avarice, Declining

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

Truth, Mind, Decision

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

Best, Government, Free

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 3, 1800

Died: January 17, 1891

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