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Rufus Choate quotes: A book is the only immortality

A book is the only immortality

Rufus Choate quotes: Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Rufus Choate quotes: Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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 quotes: No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Rufus Choate quotes: Its Constitutionthe glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Its Constitution
the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Rufus Choate quotes: 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.

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 Choate quotes: Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate quotes: The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Rufus Choate quotes: Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Rufus Choate quotes: We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Rufus Choate quotes: We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.