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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

— Rufus Choate

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

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

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

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee (1856)

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Dictionary of American Maxims‎ (1955)

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

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