With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who represented the three forces in the nation which alone could command success in the institution of the government. Hamilton was the head, Jefferson was the heart, and John Jay was the conscience. Washington's just and serene ascendancy was the lambent flame in which these beneficent powers were fused, and nothing less than that ascendancy could have ridden the whirlwind and directed the storm that burst around him.


As quoted in Manual Of Patriotism : For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York (1900) By Charles Rufus Skinner, p. 261.

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With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who...

With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who...

With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who...

With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who...