Henry Cabot Lodge: “All that can be said is, that without the influence and the labors of Washington the convention of 1787, in all…”

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.

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

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.