“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.”

— George Washington

Statement as he put on his glasses before delivering his response to the first Newburgh Address http://www.earlyamerica.com/milestone-events/newburgh-address/ (15 March 1783), quoted in a letter https://democraticthinker.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/newburgh-crisis-viwashingtons-newburgh-address/ from General David Cobb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cobb_(Massachusetts) to Colonel Timothy Pickering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Pickering (25 November 1825)
1780s, The Newburgh Address (1783)

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