Light Brown

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or brown:

    For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
    —John Brown (1800–1859)