Quotes of Henry Knox - somelinesforyou

“ We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. ”

- Henry Knox

“ We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. ”

- Henry Knox

“ They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government. ”

- Henry Knox

“ The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. ”

- Henry Knox

“ They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government. ”

- Henry Knox

“ The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox

“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”

- Henry Knox
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