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

- Knute Nelson

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

- 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 t…

- Knute Nelson

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

- 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 emp…

- Knute Nelson

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

- 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 strengt…

- Knute Nelson

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

- Knute Nelson