Henry Cabot Lodge: “We have a strong feeling of the injustice of any toleration of slavery.”

Clearness and precision of plan as to the central point, joined to a perfect readiness to change suddenly and strike hard and decisively in a totally different quarter, are sure marks of the great commander.

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…

High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.

No man of that time, with the exception of Hamilton, ever grasped and realized as he did the imperial future which stretched before the United States.