Henry Knox American Quotations

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.

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

But we find that we are men,-actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal, and that we must have a government proper and adequate for him.

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.

This dreadful situation, for which our government have made no adequate provision, has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England.