If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms.
Lodge highlights Washington's concerns about the potential reliance on foreign assistance and the implications for American independence.
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He never by any chance bored the American people.
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.
No man of that time, with the exception of Hamilton, ever grasped and realized as he did the imperial future which stretched before the United States.
It was a difficult thing for men who had been born colonists to rise to a sense of national opportunities, but Washington passed at a single step from being a Virginian to being an American, and in so doing he stood alone.