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Top 20 George Bancroft Quotes (2025 Update)

George Bancroft Quote: “Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”

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

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George Bancroft Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.”

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

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George Bancroft Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.”

5. “Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.”

6. “Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.”

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

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George Bancroft Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.”

9. “Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

10. “Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

— George Bancroft

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George Bancroft Quote: “Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”

11. “Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.”

12. “I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”

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

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George Bancroft Quote: “The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.”

15. “The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”

16. “Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.”

17. “If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.”

18. “The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

19. “If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Avarice is the vice of declining years.”

20. “Avarice is the vice of declining years.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “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.”

21. “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

George Bancroft Quote: “In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.”

22. “In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.”

— George Bancroft

George Bancroft Quote: “The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”

23. “The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”

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George Bancroft Quote: “Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”

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

— George Bancroft

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