Henry Cabot Lodge: “When we should be ready and willing to fight we could settle that question, but not before.”

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 showed that America had demonstrated to Europe that she could win independence, and it had been proved to the traditional enemy of England that the time had come when it would be profitable to help the revolted colonies.

I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or…

George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest possibilities of humanity.