Knute Nelson quotes
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“You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.”
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“I know that money speaks more loudly than need.”
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“Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.”
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“The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.”
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“Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.”
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“It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.”
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“What is best and most necessary usually happens.”
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“In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.”
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“You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.”
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“Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.”
-- Knute Nelson
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