“The motions of the Grand Army will best deter mine the propriety of endeavouring to hold all the ground from King's Bridge to the lower lines. I shall be as much on the Island of York as possible, so as not to neglect the duties of my own department.”

Letter to George Washington (31 October 1776)

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“I shall endeavour to discharge my duty to society, considering myself only as the citizen, moved by the melancholy necessity of taking up arms for the public safety.”

Letter to James Duane (1775), quoted in The Memoirs of Aaron Burr, ed. Matthew L. Davis (1837), vol. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=il4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61&dq=%22I+shall+endeavour+to+discharge+my+duty+to+society%22&ei=NoDESJmHLInaygSc-Z2KDg

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