Henry Knox Quotes

Henry Knox — American Soldier born on July 25, 1750, died on October 21, 1806

Henry Knox was a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as the first United States Secretary of War from 1789–1794... (wikipedia)

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

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.

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.

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.

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 Quotes

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