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. - Henry Knox 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. - Henry Knox 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events. - Henry Knox 6 Share Now -
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. - Henry Knox 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
