Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton, aide to Commander in-Chief George Washington, of the Continental Army, writes to fellow Aide-de-Camp Lieutenant John Laurens: “[O]ur countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep in their compositions. They are determined not to be free [sic] and they can neither be frightened, discouraged nor persuaded to change their resolution.”
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References:
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1980), 76.
Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, [30 June 1780]
founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0742
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