Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic. Montgomery Schuyler More Quotes by Montgomery Schuyler More Quotes From Montgomery Schuyler 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 engineering shrines bridges