48 Quotes by John Brown

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

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

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

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

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

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

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

...what we need is action - action!

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