"The final end of government is not to……" — Rufus Choate
"The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good."
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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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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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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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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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