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There Was A State Without King Or Nobles; There Was A Church Without A Bishop
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There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop;
-- Rufus Choate (1799-1859)
-- Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843
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A book is the only immortality. -- Rufus Choate
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson [Seward's 'Biographia', 1799]...
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
-- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) -- Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1802...
A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45
6) Men employees will be given time off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church.
(7) After an employee has spent his thirteen hours of labor in the office, he should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books....
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.
-- Rufus Choate (1799-1859) -- Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855...
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
Why is the King of Hearts the only one without a moustache?