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Avarice is the vice of declining years.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Avarice Declining Vice Years

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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Critic Public Than Wiser Wisest

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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Common Criterion Decision Faculty Mind Nearest Reason Truth Universal

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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

Topics: Authority Best Development Few Free Government Opinion People Persons Property Public Public Opinion Rests

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: October 3rd, 1800

Died: January 17th, 1891

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