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Top 15 Rufus Choate Quotes (2025 Update)

Rufus Choate Quote: “No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

1. “No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”

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Rufus Choate Quote: “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”

2. “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “A book is the only immortality.”

3. “A book is the only immortality.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”

4. “Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Knowledge is power as well as fame.”

6. “Knowledge is power as well as fame.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Its Constitution – the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

7. “Its Constitution – the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “You don’t want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.”

8. “You don’t want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.”

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

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Rufus Choate Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.”

12. “Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”

13. “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

Rufus Choate Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

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

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate Quote: “Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.”

17. “Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.”

— Rufus Choate

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