John Brown

John Brown (1800-1859) was an American abolitionist. who advocated the use of violence to end slavery. He fought in "Bleeding Kansas" and led a raid in Harpers Ferry in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion. He was later tried for treason and hanged.

I am...quite cheerful in view of my approaching end...[and believe] I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

Letter, November 12, 1859

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

Last Words

Nothing so charms the American people as personal bravery.

Address to League of Gileadites

Slavery...is...the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens against another portion.

Provisional Constitution and Ordinances

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

If I am asked, as a purely intellectual question, why I believe in Christianity, I can only answer, ‘For the same reason that an intelligent agnostic disbelieves in Christianity.’ I believe in it quite rationally upon the evidence.

G. K. Chesterton

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

Anaïs Nin

All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.

Fulton Sheen

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Terence

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

George Washington

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

Modernists have undermined faith far more effectively than atheists. The wolves in sheep’s clothing have carried away many more sheep than the honest wolves.

Peter Kreeft

Churches . . . that are nothing more than a loosely bound assembly of individuals committed to finding their own ‘truth,’ are no longer the church in any meaningful sense, because there is no shared belief.

Rod Dreher

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the freedom of other individuals to do the same.

Milton Friedman

If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

Elbert Hubbard

[Violence] does not always, not necessarily, openly throttle the throat. More often it demands from its subjects only . . . complicity in falsehood.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Appearance too often takes the place of reality—the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash.

William Jennings Bryan

Behind many contemporary affirmations of the freedom of love is a false rationalization, for although love involves freedom, not all freedom involves love.

Fulton Sheen

Some people think God is infinitely demanding. Some think he is infinitely forgiving. He is both.

Scott Bradford

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

Paul the Apostle

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

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