Town Scaffold

Famous quotes containing the words town and/or scaffold:

“This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.”
—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)