George Bancroft
George Bancroft
George Bancroftwas an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth3 October 1800
CountryUnited States of America
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
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.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
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