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John Brown Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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