Quotes of George Bancroft - somelinesforyou

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

- George Bancroft

“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

“ The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ”

- George Bancroft

“ By death prejudice is annihilated. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ”

- George Bancroft

“ By death prejudice is annihilated. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ”

- George Bancroft

“ Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ”

- George Bancroft

“ 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. ”

- George Bancroft

“ Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ”

- George Bancroft

“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ”

- George Bancroft

“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

“ To the pusillanimous and the idle, scandal is the condiment of life; and while backbiting furnishes their entertainment abroad, domestic quarreling fills up the leisure hours at home. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ”

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

“ 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. ”

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”

- George Bancroft

“ The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chair; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. - George Bancroft. ”

- George Bancroft

“ If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal? Time, the common enemy, must be passed, as the phrase is, and the phrase bears its own commentary ; and since the days of gladiators are gone by, what better substitute than blackening the reputation of the living? ”

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

“ It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ”

- George Bancroft

“ In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ”

- George Bancroft
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