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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 |
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George BancroftAvarice is the vice of declining years.
George BancroftInstitutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
George BancroftEnnui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
George BancroftThe 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 BancroftThe 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 BancroftThe prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
George BancroftIf 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 BancroftBeauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
George BancroftTruth 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 BancroftSedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
George Bancroft