John Brown Quotes
"William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Volume 1". Book by Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison, 1969.
James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234
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
John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”
Speech at trial for treason and insurrection, Charlestown, Va., 2 Nov. 1859 See Bible 333
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
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial, November 2, 1859.
John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117
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
John Brown (1861). “Spare Hours (3)”, p.106, General Books
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
Lancet I: 464 (1904)
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