George Bancroft

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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.


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.


— George Bancroft


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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.


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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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.


— George Bancroft


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


— George Bancroft


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In and around Worcester Massachusetts Bancroft's birthplace many streets businesses and monuments bear his name:
Bancroft School Worcester MA. While the young man delivered several sermons shortly after his return from Europe in 1822 which produced a favorable impression the love of literature proved the stronger attachment. As time passed and custom created familiarity his style personal and literary was seen to be the outward symbol of a firm resolve to preserve a philosophic calm and of an enormous underlying energy which spent itself in labor.

Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent. S. George Bancroft (October 3 1800 – January 17 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level.