33 Quotes by George Bancroft

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

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

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

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.

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

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.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.