Henry Cabot Lodge: “A man of the people, he was American by the character of his genius, by his versatility, the vivacity of his intellect…”

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…

They had listened to a speech which was not equaled in meaning and spirit in American history until, eighty years later, Abraham Lincoln stood upon the slopes of Gettysburg and uttered his immortal words upon those who died that the…

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

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