Knute Nelson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What is best and most necessary usually happens.”

“I know that money speaks more loudly than need.”

“It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.”

“That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.”

“We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.”

“But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here.”