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Rufus Choate

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

— Rufus Choate

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 love

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

— Rufus Choate men

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 people

The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

— Rufus Choate age

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 life

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 love

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

— Rufus Choate art

Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the .

— Rufus Choate right

A book is the only immortality.

— Rufus Choate book

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

— Rufus Choate men

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