A book is the only immortality - Rufus Choate

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

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.

The courage of New England was the "courage of conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.