Rufus Choate, The Importance of Illustrating New-England History by a Series of Romances like the Waverley Novels (1833), a lecture delivered at Salem, Massachusetts.
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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
— United States
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