Henry Cabot Lodge: “They saw the soldier who had given them victory, the great statesman who had led them out of confusion and faction to…”

He accomplished this great labor more successfully by honest and lawful methods than if he had taken the path of the strong-handed savior of society, and his work in this field did more for the welfare of his country than all his battles.

It showed that America had demonstrated to Europe that she could win independence, and it had been proved to the traditional enemy of England that the time had come when it would be profitable to help the revolted colonies.

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.

He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.