Rufus Choate Quotes
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
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.
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.
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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.
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.
