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

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

- Robert Charles Winthrop

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 burde…

- Robert Charles Winthrop

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

- Robert Charles Winthrop

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

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 th…

- Robert Charles Winthrop

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 …

- Robert Charles Winthrop

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Ju…

- Robert Charles Winthrop