Henry Cabot Lodge: “George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest…”

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.

It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.