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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
— George Bancroft
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
— George Bancroft
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
— George Bancroft
Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
— Josh McDowell
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
— George Bancroft
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
— George Bancroft
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
— George Bancroft
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
— George Bancroft
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
— George Bancroft
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
— George Bancroft
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.
— George Bancroft
The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
— George Bancroft
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
— George Bancroft
Great for good, or great for evil.
— Robert Burns
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
— George Bancroft
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
— George Bancroft
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
— Billy Graham
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
— George Bancroft
It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don't know how we think and why we are conscious.
— Debasish Mridha
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
— George Bancroft