Henry Cabot Lodge: “When, without any self-seeking, he was placed at the head of the Revolution, he made up his mind that he would carry it…”

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

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

We know what the compromises finally were, and how they were brought about, but we can never do exact justice to the iron will which held men together when all compromises seemed impossible, and which even in the darkest hour would not…