Stephen F. Knott > Quotes

“Kennedy and the brief era in which he governed are part of a lost world, possibly irretrievable, when Americans believed in themselves and in their nation. I am not referring to a mystical Camelot, but to a time when polls revealed Americans trusted their government and believed in their nation’s purpose.
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― Stephen F. Knott

“times of such commotion as the present, while the passions of men are worked up to an uncommon pitch, there is great danger of fatal extremes. The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them…very naturally leads to a contempt and disregard for all authority.”
― Stephen F. Knott, Washington and Hamilton: The Untold True Story of the Unlikely Friendship that Helped Win the American Revolution, Forge the Constitution, and Shape a Nation