I see in Washington a great soldier who fought a trying war to a successful end impossible without him; a great statesman who did more than all other men to lay the foundations of a republic which has endured in prosperity for more than a century.
Lodge praises Washington as both a soldier and statesman, highlighting his crucial role in the founding of the United States.
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Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.