My temper leads me to peace and harmony with allmen; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
George Washington, in a letter to Major-General Gates (24 February 1778); published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, p. 368.