Joseph Howe Quotes

Canada, Journalist
December 13, 1804 – June, 1, 1873.

Joseph Howe, PC was a Nova Scotian journalist, politician, public servant, and poet. Howe is often ranked as one of Nova Scotia's most admired politicians and his considerable skills as a journalist and writer have made him a provincial legend.

Also known as Politician, Public Servant, Poet

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.

Joseph Howe
- Past
- Nation
- Glories
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe
- Poetry
- Politics
- Married

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Joseph Howe
- Poverty
- Library
- Volume
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe
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 the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

Joseph Howe
- Power
- Judge
- Privilege
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 labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe