24 Quotes by Rufus Choate

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

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.

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

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

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

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

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.

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.

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.