"Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural……" — Rufus Choate
"Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."
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Rufus Choate
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12 Quotes by Rufus Choate
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate…
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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,…
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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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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to…
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Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing…
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The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of…
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far…
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People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the…
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I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid…
— Antonio Banderas
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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— Glenn Beck
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings…
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