- 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 {view}
- 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.... George Bancroft {view}
- The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another... George Bancroft {view}