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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

Henry Knox Failure Done Civil War

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

Henry Knox Time Nation See

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

Henry Knox Light Darkness True

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

Henry Knox Friend Step Liberty

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

Henry Knox Nature Men Distance

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

Henry Knox Rebellion Name Liberty

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

Henry Knox Unity Wish See

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

Henry Knox Support People Wishes

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

Henry Knox Political Independent
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