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Robert Charles Winthrop has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A star for every State, and a State for every star.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for…
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit…
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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective…
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.…
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Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by…
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