Joseph Howe Quotes

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• My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the…
• We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
• My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot…
• Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
• Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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