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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/the-best-government-rests-on-the-people-and-not-on-the-few-on-persons/)

[George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bancroft/)

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## More by George Bancroft

> [“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/the-disturbances-in-the-country-grew-not-out-of-anything-republican/)

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> [The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/the-measure-of-progress-of-civilization-is-the-progress-of-the-people/)

[George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bancroft/)

> [Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/not-in-vain-has-lincoln-lived-for-he-has-helped-to-make-this-republic/)

[George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bancroft/)

> [Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/ennui-is-the-desire-of-activity-without-the-fit-means-of-gratifying/)

[George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bancroft/)

> [By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/by-common-consent-gray-hairs-are-a-crown-of-glory-the-only-object-of/)

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> [Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/style-is-the-gossamer-on-which-the-seeds-of-truth-float-through-the/)

[George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bancroft/)

> [Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/dishonesty-is-so-grasping-it-would-deceive-god-himself-were-it/)

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> [The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/the-charities-of-life-are-scattered-everywhere-enameling-the-vales-of/)

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> [Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/institutions-may-crumble-and-governments-fall-but-it-is-only-that/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/the-prejudices-of-ignorance-are-more-easily-removed-than-the/)

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> [Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/sedition-is-bred-in-the-lap-of-luxury-and-its-chosen-emissaries-are/)

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> [In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/in-1688-england-contracted-to-the-netherlands-the-highest-debt-that/)

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> [ It \[Calvinism\] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/it-calvinism-established-a-religion-without-a-prelate-a-government/)

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> [“Palmerston did nothing that will endure; LINCOLN finished a work which all time cannot overthrow. Palmerston”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/palmerston-did-nothing-that-will-endure-lincoln-finished-a-work-which/)

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> [Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bancroft/where-the-people-possess-no-authority-their-rights-obtain-no-respect/)

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