33 Quotes by George Bancroft

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

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

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

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

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

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.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.