Henry Cabot Lodge: “King, I venture the assertion that George Washington was as genuine an American as Lincoln or Franklin.”

I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or…

If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.

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