Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.