Brown Quote by George Haven Putnam

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

— John Sergeant Wise

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

— John Sergeant Wise

John Brown was one of my longtime heroes, and it was with no little amount of temerity that I accepted the role. There are…

— Sterling Hayden

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and…

— Yip Harburg

As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it…

— Eustace Mullins

“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.”

— James W. Loewen

“lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—"whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes marching…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath…

— William A. Phillips

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had…

— Henry David Thoreau

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

— Ogden Nash

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers