Man is remembered by his deeds.
Knute Nelson

What is best and most necessary usually happens.
Knute Nelson

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

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

I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth.
Knute Nelson