Richard M. Ketchum Quotes

Our People Are Not Calculated To Be Confined In Garrisons Or Kept In Any Particular Service; They Soon Grow Troublesome And Uneasy By Reflecting On Their Folly In Bringing Themselves Into A State Of Subjection When They Might Have Continued Free And Independent'. This Was A Society Unlike Any In The World, In Which People Placed Great Value On Their Status As Independent Individuals, Beholden To No Man. They Were Suspicious Of Standing Armies And Impatient Of Discipline, And While They Realized The Need To Resist The Enemy, They Preferred To Do So On Their Own Terms At A Time And Place Of Their Own Choosing. It Did Not Make For The Kind Of Army On Which Generals Could Pin Great Hopes.

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