Joseph Howe - A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates

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

source: 1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

topic: Wise, Country, Pride, National Pride