What made George Washington the most remarkable man of an extraordinary generation? He was not an intellectual giant like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or James Madison.

As we celebrate the 293rd birthday of the father of our country, I would like to note that George Washington’s strength of character is still portrayed as the standard for the office of the ...

The statue of George Washington stands in the Capitol Rotunda, in Washington D.C. On this day 287 years ago, America's first and most famous president was born.

For, on this President’s Day, friends, Americans, countrymen, we commemorate not just the birth, but also the character, of George Washington. Character was a lifelong concern of Washington.

George Washington, letter to The United Baptist Churches in Virginia, May 1789, in Writings of George Washington, ed. Jared Sparks (Boston: The American Stationer’s Company, 1837), Vol. XII, p. 155.