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George Bancroft [1800-1891] American

Rank: 101
Historian, American statesman

George Bancroft was 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.

Respect, Intelligence

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.	Respect	101
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.	Respect	102
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.		103
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.		104
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.	Intelligence	105
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.		106
Avarice is the vice of declining years.		107
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.		108
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.		109
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.		110
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.		111
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.		112
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.		113
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.		114

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