"The courage of New England was the courage……" — Rufus Choate
"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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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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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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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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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of…
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