Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
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
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
George Bancroft
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
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 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.