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"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."
Rufus Choate / Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843.

Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union."
Rufus Choate / Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855.

Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence."
Rufus Choate / Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856.

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee, 1856.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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