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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

George Bancroft Biography

  Nationality: American
Type: Historian

Born: October 3, 1800
Death: January 17, 1891
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