Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthropwas an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1809
CountryUnited States of America
ignorance hands safety
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.
temptation want crime
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.