“No man has ever appeared upon the theatre of human action whose integrity was more incorruptible, or whose principles were more perfectly free from the contamination of those selfish and unworthy passions which find their nourishment in the conflicts of party.  His ends were always upright, and his means always pure. He exhibits the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were absolutely unknown. In him was fully exemplified the real distinction between wisdom and cunning, and the truth of the maxim that ‘honesty is the best policy.'”

–from The Life of George Washington, Special Edition for Schools, John Marshall, 1838

Larry Rivers, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1953, Museum of Modern Art