George Bancroft
George Bancroft
George Bancroftwas an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth3 October 1800
CountryUnited States of America
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.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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 fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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.
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.