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
We have called this our Decade of Gibbons. We expected to win this ourselves. We are a young team, but when you win something for 10 straight years, you don't want that loss on your watch.
It was tough wrestling Alex because we do train together in the summer. I hope there are no hard feelings, but when we get on the mat we have to put our friendship behind.
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.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
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.
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
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.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
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.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
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.
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.