George Bancroft Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous George Bancroft quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American historian who passed away on 2 October, 1956.
“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.”
“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 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.”
“The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.”
“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”
“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.”
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”
“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”
“In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.”
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