They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
