Rufus Choate Quote

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

letter to the Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 August 1856, in S. G. Brown The Works of Rufus Choate with a Memoir of his Life (1862) vol. 1

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

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

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

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