Knute Nelson quotes

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable. (Knute Nelson)

Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie.

Knute Nelson

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.

Knute Nelson

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Knute Nelson

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.

Knute Nelson

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Knute Nelson

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Knute Nelson

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.

Knute Nelson

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

Knute Nelson

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

Knute Nelson