George Bancroft Quotes

George Bancroft
George Bancroft
American Historian
Born: Oct 3, 1800
Died: Jan 17, 1891
Common Mind People Respect Rights Truth
Related authors: Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Henry Adams James Truslow Adams Robert Fogel Tara Westover Will Durant
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. George Bancroft
Government Best Property People Free Few Rests Development Opinion Authority Public Persons Public Opinion
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
Ignorance First Blindly Easily Adopted More Than Interest Preferred Prejudices Second
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. George Bancroft
Critic Wiser Wisest Than Public
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. George Bancroft
Truth Decision Mind Criterion Faculty Common Reason Nearest Universal

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