我经常想到，如果我应该将步枪带到肩膀上并进入阶段，或者……已经退休到后国家并生活在假发中，我应该将命令带到我的肩膀上，而不是在这种情况下接受命令。 - 乔治·华盛顿
(I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or … had retir'd to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. -GEORGE WASHINGTON)