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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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160 |
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AUTHOR:
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Rufus Choate (1799–1859) |
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QUOTATION:
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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Representative RUFUS CHOATE, “The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels,” lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts, 1833.—Samuel Gilman Brown, The Works of Rufus Choate with a Memoir of His Life, vol. 1, p. 345 (1862). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Capitol building, Washington, D.C. |
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