Robert Charles Winthrop Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Sometimes it is easy ... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Anthony Kennedy

#3. Our country - whether bounded by the St. 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.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#4. 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

#5. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#6. For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.

Elizabeth Berkley

#7. I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alan Greenspan

#9. 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 the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#10. I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

George Carlin

#11. Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Bob Dylan

#12. The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

Emile M. Cioran

#13. There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

Aaron Watson

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

Robert Charles Winthrop

#15. The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Wade Davis

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

Robert Charles Winthrop

#17. We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Hanne Blank