George Bancroft
George Bancroft was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Worcester
- Educated at
- Heidelberg UniversityUniversity of GöttingenPhillips Exeter AcademyHarvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
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Trending topics shown first"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred."
"The glory of God is not contingent on man's good will, but all existence subserves his purposes. The system of the universe is as a celestial poem, whose beauty is from all eternity, and must not be m…"
"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."
"Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle."
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1800
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Birth1891
Died
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