Quote by George Bancroft
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this repu

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. – George Bancroft

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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. – George Bancroft

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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

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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. – NapoleonI

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson

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Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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