Henry Cabot Lodge: “This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his…”

He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.

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.

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.

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