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Henry Knox Quotes

1750–1806 United States

Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War. He was a trusted adviser, and a life-long friend, of George Washington.

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The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part in posterity will bless or curse us.

We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.

I most earnestly beg you to spare no trouble or necessary expense in getting these.

We shall cut no small figure through the country with our cannon.

It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.

Trusting that...we shall have a fine fall of snow....I hope in sixteen or seventeen days to be able to present to your Excellency a noble train of artillery.

Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame . . . and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Knox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.