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 b…

- John Brown

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

- John Brown

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 …

- John Brown

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 …

- John Brown

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

- John Brown

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

- John Brown

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 othe…

- John Brown

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one …

- John Brown

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 p…

- John Brown