Rufus Choate quotes

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. (Rufus Choate)

A book is the only immortality.

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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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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.

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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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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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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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All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.

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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

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Rufus Choate

Occupation: American Lawyer
Born: October 1, 1799
Died: July 13, 1859
Quotes count: 10
Wikipedia: Rufus Choate

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