Quotes by : Henry Knox

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from....

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse....

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful....

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against....

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that....

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation,....

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure,....

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating....

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and....