Rufus Choate famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Reading #Passionate #Youth
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
-- Rufus Choate

#Party #Patriotism #Flags
Knowledge is power as well as fame.
-- Rufus Choate

#Knowledge #Fame #Knowledge Is Power
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
-- Rufus Choate

#Air #Diction #Want
Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.
-- Rufus Choate

#Important #May #Students
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every deathÂ ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
-- Rufus Choate

#Stars #War #Adversity
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.
-- Rufus Choate

#Kings #Law #People
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
-- Rufus Choate

#Government #Finals #Ends
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
-- Rufus Choate

#Independence #Oratory #Constitution
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
-- Rufus Choate

#Equality #Law #Numbers
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

#Law #Honor #Firsts
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
-- Rufus Choate

#Temples #Oracles #Common
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
-- Rufus Choate

#Ignorant #Lawyer
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

#War #Passion #Insane
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
-- Rufus Choate

#Sarcasm #Irony #Argument
A book is the only immortality.
-- Rufus Choate

#Book #Immortality
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
-- Rufus Choate

#Power #Liable #Reactions

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