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 Choate Copy Share Image
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war… — Rufus Choate Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union. — Rufus Choate Copy Share
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading — Rufus Choate Copy Share
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate Copy Share
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. — Rufus Choate Copy Share
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which… — Rufus Choate Copy Share
