Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1629
AUTHOR:
George Washington (1732–99)
QUOTATION:
You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
ATTRIBUTION:
General GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to his regimental commanders, April 30, 1777.—The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 7, p. 495 (1932).
Washington wanted a contingent of guards he could trust. This order is often quoted as “Put none but Americans on guard tonight.”
