Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate
Rufus Choatewas an American lawyer, orator, and Congressman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth1 October 1799
CountryUnited States of America
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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution
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There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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A book is the only immortality.
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
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The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
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No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.