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 Copy Share Image
“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Palmerston did nothing that will endure; LINCOLN finished a work which all time cannot overthrow. Palmerston” — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
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