Henry Cabot Lodge: “The work of the Revolution and the presidency, whether good or bad, was his own, and he was ready to stand or fall by…”

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.

But they were dangerous then, and Washington, with his honest hatred of all that seemed to him to partake of meanness or treason, proposed to put them down and render them harmless, being well convinced, after his clear-sighted fashion…

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.