22 Quotes by Knute Nelson

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

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

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.

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.

I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim.

Keeping a promise made before I left you folks, I will now take pen in hand for a little while and tell you about my experience of a soldier's life.

The army now lies inactive and will continue to do so until the start of autumn days; for it is now too hot to do anything in this line of work.