If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion… — John Brown Copy Share Image
When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I want you to help hive them. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But… — John Brown Copy Share Image
If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! — John Brown Copy Share Image
So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present… — John Brown Copy Share Image
I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument… — John Brown Copy Share Image
