Henry Cabot Lodge: “There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.”

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.

It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.

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…

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…