Henry Cabot Lodge: “Which is the noble character for after ages to admire,--yon fribble dancing in lace and spangles, or yonder hero who…”

However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.

There are people to-day, not many luckily, whose families have been here for two hundred and fifty years, and who are as utterly un-American as it is possible to be, while there are others, whose fathers were immigrants, who are as…

Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.