Henry Cabot Lodge: “No man of that time, with the exception of Hamilton, ever grasped and realized as he did the imperial future which…”

He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.

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.

After stating plainly that the army was on the verge of dissolution, he said: "To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train.

All that can be said is, that without the influence and the labors of Washington the convention of 1787, in all probability, would have failed of success.