Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Raymond Massey: John Brown

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• John Brown : I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. Aye, let them hang me. I forgive them, and may God forgive them for they know not what they do!

• John Brown : I have given you fair warning. You can keep your heads or lose 'em as you wish.

• John Brown : Wipe out those fools at the foot of the hill!

• John Brown : My work here is done.

• John Brown : I am only walking as God foreordained I should walk. All my actions, even the follies leading to this disaster, were decreed to happen long ages before this world began. But I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day, or a storm so furious as to prevent the return of warm sunshine to the country at peace. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood. Aye, let them hang me. I forgive them, and may God forgive them for they know not what they do!

• John Brown : As once you sent the ravens to save Elijah, so now you have delivered into my hands the precious means of continuing Thy Holy work. The Lord our God is a great God - a mighty and a terrible who regardth not persons nor taketh reward. The Lord is a man of war. Thy right hand shall become glorious through power. Thy right hand, oh, God shall dash in pieces the enemy.

• John Brown : Use your whip, Jason! Use your whip!

• John Brown : Fool. I'm not on trial, but the nation itself. Are you too stupid and blinded by a uniform to see what I see? A dark and evil curse laying all over this land. A carnal sin against God. It can only be wiped out in blood.

• James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart : The people of the Virginia have considered a resolution to abolish slavery for a long time. They sense that it's a moral wrong. And the rest of the South will follow Virginia's example. All I ask is time.

  John Brown : Time? Time? For 30 years, I waited for the South to cleanse it's soul of this crime. Since childhood I've been possessed with the fire of correcting this wrong. I tried peaceful agitation. As God as my witness, I tried. Peaceful means failed - long ago. Now I shall force a decision by bringing both side into armed conflict. Letters, words, talk, the time has ended for that! Strength and action are wanted now. Not a voice crying in the wilderness but a David armed with the power and the glory.

• John Brown : Let there be no peace in all this land until we have revenged ourselves upon thine enemies. As once you smote the Philistines smite now the fury of thy wrath upon these blind misbegotten fools. I shall be thy right hand. I, John Brown, shall be the sword of Jehovah!