Henry Cabot Lodge: “George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest…”

To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater loftiness and strength of mind.

High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

He had that entire simplicity of manners and modes of life which is the crowning result of the highest culture and the finest nature.