I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as… — John Brown American civil war Copy Share Image
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown Alas Copy Share Image
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that… — John Brown Defeat Copy Share Image
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown Body Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Argument Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. — John Brown Dark Copy Share Image
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown Empty Copy Share Image
“Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the… — John Brown Life Copy Share Image
Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of their friendsand… — John Brown Every man Copy Share Image
Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of… — John Brown Behalf Copy Share Image
The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly. — John Brown Courage Copy Share Image
The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth. — John Brown Down to earth 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… — John Brown Abolitionist Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Abolitionist Copy Share Image
