Zitat des Tages von George Bancroft:
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
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.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
