It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge. Montgomery Schuyler More Quotes by Montgomery Schuyler More Quotes From Montgomery Schuyler Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic. Montgomery Schuyler republic spoiled children