Henry Cabot Lodge: “High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.”

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

He had that entire simplicity of manners and modes of life which is the crowning result of the highest culture and the finest nature.

All that can be said is, that without the influence and the labors of Washington the convention of 1787, in all probability, would have failed of success.

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.