john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it

See, it’s no in between: you’re either free or you’re a slave.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

He is a slave with a semblance of liberty which is worse than the most cruel slavery.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.