Henry Cabot Lodge: “There never has been in political history, when all conditions are considered, such an exhibition of extraordinary…”

He repeatedly referred to the United States, even before the close of the war, as an infant empire, and he saw before any one else the destined growth of the country.

Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.

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.

This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his sense of public opinion, one jot from what he meant to do.