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Letter "G" » George Bancroft Quotes
«Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape»
«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»
Author: George Bancroft
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Government
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development, good authority, persons, property, public opinion, public property, rests
«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 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»
Author: George Bancroft
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Civilization,
Force,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Progress,
Wealth
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brute, brute force, exact, prevailed
«Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible»
Author: George Bancroft
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dishonesty
«Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement»
«The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.»
«The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another»
Author: George Bancroft
«Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.»
Author: George Bancroft
«Avarice is the vice of declining years»
Author: George Bancroft
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declining
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