Henry Cabot Lodge: “He fought to free the colonies from England, and make them independent, not to play the part of a Cæsar or a Cromwell in…”

To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater loftiness and strength of mind.

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…

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.

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