The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Robert C. Winthrop

5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.— filed under Benevolence
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education.— filed under Education
the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. Works. Vol. I. P. 62. A star for every State, and a State for every star. S.— filed under Flags
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, and to be defended by all our hands.— filed under Patriotism
Hall. July 4, 1845. There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.— filed under Patriotism
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