Quotes from Rufus Choate

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

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

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

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

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.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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 for reading

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.

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

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

A book is the only immortality.

Dalam berargumentasi jangan mengeluarkan ejekan mau pun sindiran tajam.

The book is the only immortality.

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

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.

A book is the only immortality.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.