Henry Cabot Lodge: “High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.”

Which is the noble character for after ages to admire,--yon fribble dancing in lace and spangles, or yonder hero who sheathes his sword after a life of spotless honor, a purity unreproached, a courage indomitable, and a consummate victory?

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

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…

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