I see in Washington a great soldier who fought a trying war to a successful end impossible without him; a great statesman who did more than all other men to lay the foundations of a republic which has endured in prosperity for more than a century.
Lodge praises Washington as both a soldier and statesman, highlighting his crucial role in the founding of the United States.
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However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.
The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.
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.
The vulgar hatred of wealth found no place in his heart.