Henry Cabot Lodge: “The generals whom he trusted were the best generals, the statesmen whom he consulted stand highest in history.”

Men are the creatures of the time in which they live, and take their color from the conditions which surround them, as the chameleon does from the grass or leaves in which it hides.

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.

Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.

Washington was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and the desire of mere personal aggrandizement found no place in his nature.