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Rufus Choate

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American politician (1799–1859)

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Born
1799
Died
1859
Works
35

Top works

  • Speech of Mr. Choate, of Massachusetts, on the case of Alexander McLeod
  • Circuit Court of the United States - District of New Jersey H.H. Day, ads. Charles Goodyear
  • Speech of Mr. Choate, of Massachusetts, on the bill to provide further remedial justice in the courts of the United States
  • Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives upon the petition of George R.M. Withington and others
  • The duty of conservative Whigs in the present crisis

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Type
Person
Country
US

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Quotes

  • We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
  • 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 final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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