Friday's Quote for the Day

While I'll never match his prodigious output (nor his prodigious facial hair), I'm proud to say I toil in the same profession as the eminent historian George Bancroft (1800-1891), who authored the following words of wisdom:

"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;
in other words, the measure of the progress of
civilization is the progress of the people."