Quotes by : George Bancroft

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all....

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common....

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free....

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all....

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

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