Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate
Rufus Choatewas an American lawyer, orator, and Congressman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth1 October 1799
CountryUnited States of America
built common constitution consult national oracle temples
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution
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.
knowledge fame knowledge-is-power
Knowledge is power as well as fame.
government finals ends
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
independence oratory constitution
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
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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.
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No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.