Henry Cabot Lodge: “Men are the creatures of the time in which they live, and take their color from the conditions which surround them, as…”

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

One was the conviction that the struggle must be fought out to the bitter end, and must bring either subjugation or complete independence.

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

He repeatedly referred to the United States, even before the close of the war, as an infant empire, and he saw before any one else the destined growth of the country.