John Brown, a prominent abolitionist, was born on May 9, 1800, and died on December 2, 1859. He is known for his extreme abolitionist actions and ideas, particularly for his planning of the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 to free slaves.
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“These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.”
Source: An exposition of the Epistle of ... Paul to the Hebrews, ed. by D. Smith
Source: The posthumous works of the late Rev. Mr. John Brown, minister of the Gospel at Haddington: with short memoirs, and a summary of what he uttered in his last illness
“The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.”
Source: British Theatre: Barbarossa
“Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.”
Source: Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter
“The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.”
“I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.”
Source: Spare Hours (3)
Source: The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.”
Source: The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia
“I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.”
Source: EWXPOSITORY DISCOURSES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER
“I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth
“Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.”
“I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.”
Source: The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth