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Top 25 John Brown Quotes (2025 Update)

John Brown Quote: “The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.”

1. “The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.”

John Brown Quote: “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 be unmindful of your own dignity.”

2. “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 be unmindful of your own dignity.”

John Brown Quote: “I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.”

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

John Brown Quote: “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 without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

4. “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 without very much bloodshed it might be done.”

John Brown Quote: “Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”

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

John Brown Quote: “Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!”

6. “Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!”

John Brown Quote: “I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.”

8. “I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.”

John Brown Quote: “Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

9. “Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

John Brown Quote: “I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.”

10. “I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.”

John Brown Quote: “I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.”

11. “I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.”

John Brown Quote: “I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.”

12. “I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.”

John Brown Quote: “Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.”

13. “Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.”

John Brown Quote: “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 other than moral persuasion.”

14. “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 other than moral persuasion.”

John Brown Quote: “The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.”

15. “The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.”

John Brown Quote: “It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.”

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

John Brown Quote: “No man, with a man’s heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. – Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are “living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms.””

17. “No man, with a man’s heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. – Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are “living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms.””

John Brown Quote: “There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.”

18. “There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.”

John Brown Quote: “The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today’s professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.”

19. “The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today’s professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.”

John Brown Quote: “I live in a beautiful place, I work at something I love, I make enough money to live, and my demands on the world’s resources are very meager. What’s unusual about this idyllic circumstance is that there is plenty of room for more to join.”

20. “I live in a beautiful place, I work at something I love, I make enough money to live, and my demands on the world’s resources are very meager. What’s unusual about this idyllic circumstance is that there is plenty of room for more to join.”

John Brown Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.”

22. “The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.”

John Brown Quote: “I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.”

23. “I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.”

John Brown Quote: “So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.”

24. “So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.”

John Brown Quote: “I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.”

25. “I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.”

John Brown Quote: “Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.”

26. “Come with me, Douglass; I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike, the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.”

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