Henry Cabot Lodge: “Whether in a game or in the hunting field, in a fight or in politics, he sought the front, where, as Webster once…”

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.

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

He fought to free the colonies from England, and make them independent, not to play the part of a Cæsar or a Cromwell in the wreck and confusion of civil war.

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.