Henry Cabot Lodge: “The work of the Revolution and the presidency, whether good or bad, was his own, and he was ready to stand or fall by…”

No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

He preached unceasingly the familiar morals which lie at the bottom of both family and public life.

But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.