Henry Cabot Lodge: “It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the…”

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

The bitter medicine of defeat, however unpalatable, is usually extremely sobering, but the strong new wine of success generally sets the heads of poor humanity spinning, and leads often to worse results than folly.

Men are the creatures of the time in which they live, and take their color from the conditions which surround them, as the chameleon does from the grass or leaves in which it hides.

They had listened to a speech which was not equaled in meaning and spirit in American history until, eighty years later, Abraham Lincoln stood upon the slopes of Gettysburg and uttered his immortal words upon those who died that the…