John Brown Quotes
The two most important documents in the world are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. It is better that a whole generation pass away by violent death, than they be violated.
John Brown, 1800-1859, Abolitionist, Quoted on PBS The American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War, February 28, 2000
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See Joseph Addison which may have been the inspiration for this famous quote: {613374}.
At the urging of American propaganda, Hungarians revolted against the communist government. Russia responded by sending tanks to put down the rebellion. The assistance that had been implied by the Western information services did not materialize as President Eisenhower did not want to risk war with Russia. The revolution was put down.
See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.
Jefferson had deliberately modified John Locke’s phrase “life, liberty and property.
Trumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
Grimke was the daughter of a prestigious, wealthy, slave owning, Southern Family from Charleston, and this letter was the first from anyone of the establishment of the South which favored abolition. It shook the Southern establishment to the core.
John H. Brown was an American abolitionist leader. Brown felt that violence was necessary to end American slavery, as years of speeches, sermons, petitions, and moral persuasion had failed.
