Knute Nelson Quotes

• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

  Knute Nelson

  Fitness, Sleep, Hard Times

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• Man is remembered by his deeds.

  Knute Nelson

  Men, Deeds, Remembered

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• Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.

  Knute Nelson

  Christian, Angel, Civilization

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

  Knute Nelson

  Cake, Pie, Found

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• What is best and most necessary usually happens.

  Knute Nelson

  Happens

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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.

  Knute Nelson

  War, Atlanta, Virginia

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• I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

  Knute Nelson

  Needs, Speak, Knows

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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.

  Knute Nelson

  Soul And Body, Soldier, Enemy

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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.

  Knute Nelson

  Lying, Land, East

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

  Knute Nelson

  Mean, Arrogance, Use

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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.

  Knute Nelson

  Mean, Order, Arrogance

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