Robert Charles Winthrop
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
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.
A star for every State, and a State for every star.