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George Bancroft
American
Historian
About the author
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Conscience
#Errors
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,
American
Historian
#Civilization
#Mind
#Progress
#Force
#Intelligence
#Wealth
#Measure
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#People
#Authority
#Respect
#Rights
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Truth
#Amusement
#Neighbors
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Public
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,
American
Historian
#Ignorance
#First
#Interest
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Men
#Rights
#Class
#Measure
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Tongue
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Years
#Vice
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#God
#Dishonesty
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Reason
#Truth
#Mind
#Decision
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft,
American
Historian
#Respect
#Glory
#Envy
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,
American
Historian
#Law
#Truth
#Virtue
#Infinite
#Justice
#Soul
#Beauty
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,
American
Historian
#People
#Public
#Authority
#Government
#Development
#Opinion
#Property
#Public opinion