Carl Schurz

“ A large part of the Revolutionary Army, ‘turned by six years of war from militia into seasoned veterans,’ and full of that overbearing esprit de corps characteristic of standing armies, urged George Washington to make himself a dictator, a monarch ”

“ With us the ‘man on horseback’ is not in sight. There is no danger of monarchical usurpation by a victorious General — although it is well worthy of remembrance that even here” — and then I mentioned the attempt to seduce Washington's republican virtue. ”