A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Robert C. Winthrop

1 quotation from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

No advanced thought, no mystical philosophy, no glittering abstractions, no swelling phrases about freedom, not even science with its marvelous inventions and discoveries, can help us much in sustaining this republic; still less can godless theories of creation, or any infidel attempt to rule out the Redeemer from His rightful supremacy in our hearts, afford any hope of security. That way lies despair. -— filed under National
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