John Brown

"Let it all come, I am prepared to meet my fate."

"I am content to go to my grave with the consciousness of discharging my duty."

"The condition of the slave is not improved by legal quibbles."

"A man must make up his mind early what his life's work shall be."

"I would not give one jot of a pen to live on borrowed time."

"The day of compromise with slavery is past."

"I can die but once, and that is my duty."

"Every man and woman has been placed upon this earth for some purpose."

"The claims of justice are the claims of the Eternal."

"I never can be persuaded to give the lie to my own convictions."

"The duty of resistance to tyranny is not optional but obligatory."

"Life itself is a warfare between good and evil."

"I stand among you as much your servant as your leader."

"My father taught me that faith without works is dead."

"To know the truth and not to act upon it is a sin."

"I will trust in the Lord and do my duty."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power when he has it."

"I am ready to go at any moment, with a clear conscience."

"The time to work for freedom is now, not tomorrow."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand when there is slavery."

"I have done nothing more than my conscience demanded of me."

"The path of the righteous is sometimes walked alone."

"Every generation must decide anew what freedom means."

"I do not believe in compromise with principles."

"The God I serve will judge my actions."

"I have always believed that honesty is the best policy."

"To be indifferent to injustice is to be complicit in it."

"My hope lies in the final triumph of freedom over slavery."

"I have lived and acted according to my conscience."

"The chains of slavery cannot bind the human spirit."