George Bancroft Quotes

"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
(Related: Intelligence, Civilization, Progress, Wealth, Force, Measure, Mind)

"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."
- George Bancroft
(Related: People, Authority, Rights, Respect)

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Truth, Amusement, Neighbors)

"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
- George Bancroft
(Related: 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
(Related: First, Ignorance, Interest)

"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Men, Class, Rights, Measure)

"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Tongue)

"Avarice is the vice of declining years."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Vice, Years)

"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
- George Bancroft
(Related: God, Dishonesty)

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Truth, Decision, Mind, Reason)

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
- George Bancroft
(Related: Envy, Glory, Respect)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Soul, Virtue, Infinite, Justice, Law)

"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
(Related: Government, People, Development, Authority, Opinion, Property, Public, Public opinion)