Joseph Howe Quotes

#1. The miser robs himself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#2. 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

#3. It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Winston Churchill

#4. In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.

Toba Beta

#5. We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Robert Breault

#9. A wise nation preserves its records, gathers
up its monuments, 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

#10. Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe

#11. Memorizing the Bible is most important. "Thinking God's thoughts" will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

Billy Graham

#12. Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

John Lahr

#13. Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Scott Adams

#14. 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

#15. I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

#16. 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

#17. I'm not a social animal. That is, I'm not anti-social, I don't actively repel people - not intentionally anyway - I'm just not good in rooms full of people I don't know and/or like.

Simon Lipson

#18. 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