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"Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."
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Rufus Choate"A book is the only immortality."
Rufus Choate was an American lawyer, orator, and senator who represented Massachusetts as a member of the Whig Party. He is regarded as one of the greatest American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over a thousand cases in a lifetime practice extending to virtually every branch of the law then recognized. Notably, he was one of the pioneers of the legal technique of arousing jury sympathy in t
"Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."
"Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument."
"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag, and keep step to the music of the Union."
"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."
"The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good."
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."