Robert Charles Winthrop Quotes

1809–1894 United States

Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American philanthropist, congressman from Massachusetts and one-time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

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Also known as: Robert C. Winthrop, Robert Winthrop, Winthrop, Robert, Winthrop, Robert Charles

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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.

Yorktown Oration (1881)

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Letter to Boston Commercial Club (1879)

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.

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, to be defended by all our hands.

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