Henry Knox
Henry Knox
Henry Knoxwas a military officer of the Continental Army and later the United States Army, who also served as the first United States Secretary of War from 1789 to 1794...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 July 1750
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
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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.
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Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.
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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.
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This dreadful situation, for which our government have made no adequate provision, has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England.
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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.
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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.
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The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!
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First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .