George Bancroft Quotes

October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891

George Bancroft (October 3 1800 – January 17 1891) was an American historian and diplomat, most famous for his History of the United States.

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

"The Ruling Passion in Death" (1833), p. 75

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

George Bancroft
— Vol. 1, ch. 10, p. 365

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Avarice is the vice of declining years.

George Bancroft
— Vol. 1, ch. 13, p. 484

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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

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— Vol. 3, ch. 1, p. 8

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

George Bancroft
— "Ennui" (1830), p. 48

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The best government rests on the people and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft
— "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion" (1835), p. 421

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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.

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— "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-7

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

George Bancroft
— "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", p. 430

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If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and a right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty.

George Bancroft
— George Bancroft, The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States, (1882).

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

George Bancroft
— George Bancroft, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 22.

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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

George Bancroft
— "Ennui", p. 64

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

George Bancroft
— "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", p. 424

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