The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

- George Bancroft

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

- George Bancroft

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…

- 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…

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

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

- George Bancroft

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

- George Bancroft

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 forc…

- George Bancroft