George Washington, the great actor, was playing his part in a great drama, not just for Americans of his day, but for you and me. Washington, the Stoic, used his “gift of silence” shrewdly, and surely it is his actions more than his words that echo down to us today… (click the link below to view the full essay by Stephen M. Klugewicz)

Source: George Washington and the Gift of Silence – The Imaginative Conservative