Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? — 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 on the simple altars they have raised? — 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
