Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
160
AUTHOR:
Rufus Choate (1799–1859)
QUOTATION:
We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
ATTRIBUTION:
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).
