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
Robert Charles Winthrop quotes about
memorial-day military patriotism
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
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.
communication heart successful
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?