Henry Cabot Lodge: “Men are governed very largely by impressions, and Washington knew it.”

After stating plainly that the army was on the verge of dissolution, he said: "To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train.

It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.

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

We know what the compromises finally were, and how they were brought about, but we can never do exact justice to the iron will which held men together when all compromises seemed impossible, and which even in the darkest hour would not…