Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1182
AUTHOR:
George Washington (173299)
QUOTATION:
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
ATTRIBUTION:
General GEORGE WASHINGTON, general orders, July 6, 1777.The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 8, p. 359 (1933).