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.
Lodge highlights Washington's transition from a colonial mindset to a national identity.
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When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.