Author: Henry Knox

Quotes

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

- 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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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