Henry Cabot Lodge: “Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent…”

Washington was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and the desire of mere personal aggrandizement found no place in his nature.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

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.