Henry Cabot Lodge: “The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and…”

The bitter medicine of defeat, however unpalatable, is usually extremely sobering, but the strong new wine of success generally sets the heads of poor humanity spinning, and leads often to worse results than folly.

Let us imitate this prudence; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able to conjecture where we now are.

George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest possibilities of humanity.

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