Albert Beveridge: “If there is any book capable of arousing the people, it is the one before us.”

There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…

No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.