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01c. 1829 AD

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 / quote

02c. 1829 AD

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

Rufus Choate / quote

03c. 1829 AD

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

Rufus Choate / quote

04Undated

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Rufus Choate / quote

05Undated

A book is the only immortality

Rufus Choate / quote

06Undated

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Rufus Choate / quote