To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater loftiness and strength of mind.

Washington was wholly free from the vulgar ambition of the usurper, and the desire of mere personal aggrandizement found no place in his nature.

His ruling passion was the passion for success, and for thorough and complete success.

What he could not bear was the least shadow of failure.

To have fought such a war to a victorious finish, and then turned it to his own advantage, would have been to him failure of the meanest kind.