Henry Cabot Lodge: “He never by any chance bored the American people.”

There are people to-day, not many luckily, whose families have been here for two hundred and fifty years, and who are as utterly un-American as it is possible to be, while there are others, whose fathers were immigrants, who are as…

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

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

The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence and all our gratitude, but it is neither for the honor of America, nor for the interest of the common cause, to leave the work entirely to them.