Quotes by Robert Charles Winthrop - Page 1

A star for every State, and a State for every star.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Stars
States
Star
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Memorial Day
Patriotism
Compass
Military
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The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Caring
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Want
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Abolish
Emancipation
Freeman
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Hands
Millions
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Completed
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Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Power
Men
Bible
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Strong
God Power Man
Within
God Men Man
Man
Arm
God Men Power
Bayonet
Them
God Power Men
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The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Defended
Cherished
Hearts
However
John
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Hands
Ignorance
Justice
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Without Virginia, as we must all acknowledge--without her Patrick Henry among the people, her Lees and Jefferson in the forum, and her Washington in the field--I will not say that the cause of American liberty and American independence must have been ultimately defeated--no, no, there was no ultimate defeat for that cause in the decrees of the Most High; but it must have been delayed, postponed, perplexed, and to many eyes and hearts rendered seemingly hopeless.
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Heart
Virginia
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In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?
Robert Charles Winthrop / Former Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
Communication
Heart
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