Henry Cabot Lodge: “The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.”

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.

It was a difficult thing for men who had been born colonists to rise to a sense of national opportunities, but Washington passed at a single step from being a Virginian to being an American, and in so doing he stood alone.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater loftiness and strength of mind.