For many years I have studied minutely the career of Washington, and with every step the greatness of the man has grown upon me, for analysis has failed to discover the act of his life which, under the conditions of the time, I could unhesitatingly pronounce to have been an error.
Lodge reflects on the enduring greatness of George Washington based on his extensive study of his life.
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No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.