Henry Cabot Lodge: “He has been lifted high up into a lonely greatness, and unconsciously put outside the range of human sympathy.”

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…

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

But they were dangerous then, and Washington, with his honest hatred of all that seemed to him to partake of meanness or treason, proposed to put them down and render them harmless, being well convinced, after his clear-sighted fashion…

This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his sense of public opinion, one jot from what he meant to do.