Rufus Choate quotes
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“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.201
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“Knowledge is power as well as fame.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.
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“Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.”
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.379
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“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.53
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“Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”
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“I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.292
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“We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345
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“No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
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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.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway
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“Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.
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“A book is the only immortality.”
-- Rufus ChoateSource : "Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
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“Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.”
-- Rufus Choate
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