John Brown

"I have lived with purpose."

"The truth will set us free."

"I believe in the power of conscience."

"All struggle is not in vain."

"My faith sustains me."

"I have no fear of what comes next."

"The righteous path is the only path."

"I am content with my life's work."

"I am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

"Let your lives be remembrances of me."

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

"I believe that to have failed to do anything is to have done something."

"The Scriptures plainly teach that we are to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's but unto God the things that are God's."

"I can trust in God while in the act of abolitionism."

"We cannot own another human being without owning their immortal soul."

"I have, I believe, fully made up my mind that it is better that a few of the worst of the slaves should be made free than that all the slaves should remain in bondage."

"My soul goes marching on."

"I am content to die for a cause so holy."

"The great work of my life is not yet finished."

"I have only a short time to live—only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause."

"Every moment of delay on the part of the people who declare slavery to be sinful is a direct violation of their professions."

"I wish to say, furthermore, that you had better—all you people of the South—prepare yourselves for a settlement of that question."

"I have no occasion to be ashamed of the cause in which I am engaged."

"The work which the abolitionists have to perform is the greatest work which was ever committed to human beings."

"I pity the poor in bondage that have none to help them."

"God has always been on the side of the just."

"I do not wish to minimize the enormity of the crime of holding slaves."

"It is written in the book of the Prophet Isaiah that a little child shall lead them."

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

"The laws of the land are the supreme law to all good citizens."