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Henry Knox
8 quotes
“It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knox to George Washington on the difficulties of taking to Boston. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“I most earnestly beg you to spare no trouble or necessary expense in getting these.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knox to a local officer while taking cannon to Boston. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“Trusting that...we shall have a fine fall of snow....I hope in sixteen or seventeen days to be able to present to your Excellency a noble train of artillery.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knox to George Washington on when the cannon would arrive. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“We shall cut no small figure through the country with our cannon.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knox to his wife, on the difficulties of dragging Cannon. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part in posterity will bless or curse us.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knox on the Declaration of Independence. Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 83.
“We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 201.
“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 (1750–1806) first seen 1787 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to George Washington, urging Washington to attend the Philadelphia Convention. (March 19, 1787)
“It is a melancholy reflection that our modes of population have been more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru. The evidence of this is the utter extirpation of nearly all the Indians in the most populous parts of the Union. A future historian may mark the causes of this destruction of the human race in sable colors. Although the present Government of the United States cannot with propriety be involved in the oppropbrium, yet it seems necessary however, in order to render their attention upon this subject strongly characteristic of their justice, that some powerful attempts should be made to tranquilize the frontiers, particularly those south of the Ohio.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) first seen 1790 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Report by then Secretary of War Henry Knox to the president, 1790.