To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to Washington alone.
Lodge asserts that Washington's ability to achieve greatness without absolute power is unique to him.
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