Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

That which is not just is not law.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.