Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.