Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.