Henry Cabot Lodge: “But to suppose that in other respects he belonged to the ranks of mediocrity is not only a contradiction in terms, but…”

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

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.

But they were dangerous then, and Washington, with his honest hatred of all that seemed to him to partake of meanness or treason, proposed to put them down and render them harmless, being well convinced, after his clear-sighted fashion…

However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.