John Brown (abolitionist)

I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.

— John Brown (abolitionist)

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

— John Brown (abolitionist)

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, — being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

— John Brown (abolitionist)

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can 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 (abolitionist)

This is a beautiful country.

— John Brown (abolitionist)

In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves.… I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.

— John Brown (abolitionist)