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Rufus Choate Quotes

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.

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

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

"Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.379

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

Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.201

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.410

A book is the only immortality.

"Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.

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