John Brown Quotes

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• Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

  John Brown

  Life, God, Dedication

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  I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

  John Brown

  War, Thinking, Blood

  John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

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  These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

  John Brown

  Men, Action, Needed

  "William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Volume 1". Book by Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison, 1969.

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• I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Rights, Ideas

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Liars, Character, Honor

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  I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

  John Brown

  Dark, Night, Remember

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, Independence

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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  I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

  John Brown

  Thinking, Light, People

  John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

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• Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

  John Brown

  Tired, Hearing, Cowardice

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• 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 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 whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!

  John Brown

  Country, Children, Believe

  Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333

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• The intent and not the deed
  Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
  Does greatly.

  John Brown

  Courage, Doe, Deeds

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Brown, John Banks (1795). “British Theatre: Barbarossa”, p.72

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• Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.

  John Brown

  Powerful, Intelligent, Men

  John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial, November 2, 1859.

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• The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

  John Brown

  Men, United States, He Man

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  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

  Thinking, Doe, Holiness

  John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117

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• The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

  John Brown

  Eye, Heaven, Looks

  JOHN BROWN (1855). “EWXPOSITORY DISCOURSES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER”, p.98

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• I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

  John Brown

  Purpose

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.351

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• I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

  John Brown

  Necks, Determined, Defeat

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• I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

  John Brown

  Dog, Baby, Thinking

  John Brown (1861). “Spare Hours (3)”, p.106, General Books

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• ...what we need is action - action!

  John Brown

  Needs, Action

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• I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

  John Brown

  Fighting, Virginia, Unions

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• No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

  John Brown

  Disappointment, Spring, Heart

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• I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

  John Brown

  Honor, Answers, I Can

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.277

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• It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

  John Brown

  Nurse, Suffering, Cases

  Lancet I: 464 (1904)

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• The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

  John Brown

  Angel, Spirit, Governing

  John Brown (1862). “An exposition of the Epistle of ... Paul to the Hebrews, ed. by D. Smith”, p.69

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Tongue

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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