Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by thei… — Joseph Howe

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 HowePolitician · Canadian · 1804 – 1873

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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe
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
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