George Washington: “To maintain our freedoms, we must uphold the principles of justice and equality.”

Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy.

The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.

I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qualified to encounter the usual vicissitudes of war.

It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.