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A star for every State, and a State for every star. Robert C. Winthrop

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	Robert C. Winthrop
	(1809-1894) Toast at Faneuil Hall on the Fourth of July, 1845 - American politician, speaker of the House, senator, descendant of John Winthrop.

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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 more or less, still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.

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

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.

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

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.