If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
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 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
