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Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

— George Bancroft

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The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

A History of the United States (1834)

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

A History of the United States (1834)

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.

Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

The progress of man consists in this, that he himself arrives at the perception of truth.

Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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