John Brown

John Brown may refer to:

  • John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), American who led an anti-slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
  • John Brown (doctor) (1735–1788), Scottish physician who taught that disease was caused by either excessive or inadequate stimulation
  • John Brown (servant) (1826–1883), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria

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Famous quotes containing the words john and/or brown:

    “This is my commandment, that ye love one another.”
    —Bible: New Testament Jesus, in John 15:12.

    “What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)