British history Quote 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…

— George Bancroft

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

— 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…

— George Bancroft

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

— George Bancroft

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

— George Bancroft

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

— George Bancroft

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

— George Bancroft

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

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

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

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

— George Bancroft

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

— George Bancroft