You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
Rufus ChoateThe 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.
Rufus ChoateWe join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
Rufus Choate