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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 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 Quotes)
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. (George Bancroft Quotes)
Avarice is the vice of declining years (George Bancroft Quotes)
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible (George Bancroft Quotes)
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 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 Quotes)
The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind (George Bancroft Quotes)
The public is wiser than the wisest critic (George Bancroft Quotes)
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person (George Bancroft Quotes)
Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge (George Bancroft Quotes)
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world (George Bancroft Quotes)
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire (George Bancroft Quotes)
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine (George Bancroft Quotes)
It is sometimes said, that the abundance of vacant land operates as the safety valve of our system (George Bancroft Quotes)
The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break (George Bancroft Quotes)
Ambition itself is not so reckless of human life as ennui; clemency is a favorite attribute of the former; but ennui has the taste of a cannibal (George Bancroft Quotes)
Our land is not more the recipient of the men of all countries than of their ideas (George Bancroft Quotes)
Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality (George Bancroft Quotes)
It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, lo, God is here, and we knew him not! (George Bancroft Quotes)
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle (George Bancroft Quotes)
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another (George Bancroft Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth (George Bancroft Quotes)
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape (George Bancroft Quotes)
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement (George Bancroft Quotes)
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 Quotes)
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy (George Bancroft Quotes)