Rufus Choate

“The gladsome light of jurisprudence.”

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

“Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”

“A book is the only immortality.”

“The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.”

“Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.”

“There is a piety of the household which survives the utter ruin of the altar.”

“Eloquence is logic on fire.”

“He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“His eulogy is his life.”

“I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.”

“The profession of the law... is that of the Ass feeding on the thistles of litigation.”