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Rufus Choate
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“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels", a lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts (1833).
“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 (1799–1859) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at Ipswich Centennial (1834).
“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) first seen 1841 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Senate (2 July 1841).
“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 (1799–1859) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech before the New England Society (22 December 1843)
“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 death ; 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 (1799–1859) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Power of a State Developed by Mental Culture", an address to the Mercantile Library Association (18 November 1844), published in The Works of Rufus Choate : Memoir, Lectures and Addresses (1862), edited by Samuel Gi…
“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 (1799–1859) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute (29 September 1854).
“We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Whig Convention, Worcester (1 October 1855).
“Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856). Six years earlier, Choate gave a lecture in Providence which was reviewed by Franklin J. Dickman in the Journal of December 14, 1849. Unless Choate used the words "glittering g…
“A book is the only immortality.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Part of a Man's Life (1905) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
“Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dictionary of American Maxims (1955) by David George Plotkin