Rufus Choate Quotes
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.292
"Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.
Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.379
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.201
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410
"Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
Rufus Choate (1883). “Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate”
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.53
Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.395