Henry Cabot Lodge: “But to suppose that in other respects he belonged to the ranks of mediocrity is not only a contradiction in terms, but…”

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.

One was the conviction that the struggle must be fought out to the bitter end, and must bring either subjugation or complete independence.

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…

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…