Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate
Rufus Choatewas an American lawyer, orator, and Congressman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth1 October 1799
CountryUnited States of America
kings law people
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.
cat onions worship
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.
law honor firsts
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.
reading passionate youth
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
war passion insane
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.
book immortality
A book is the only immortality.