Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
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It overlooks the contributions of others who also shaped the nation.
On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune c…
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
You have in American history one of the great captains of all times. It might be said of him, as it was of William the Silent, that he seldom won a battle but …
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independ…
Such things had occasionally been said by some political enthusiast in the olden time, but, for the first time in the history of the world, the representatives…
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!