There was a state without king or nobles; there was a churc… - Rufus Choate

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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

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Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799 – July 13, 1859) was an American lawyer, Whig politician, and orator.

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

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

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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