Henry Cabot Lodge: “Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet…”

When, without any self-seeking, he was placed at the head of the Revolution, he made up his mind that he would carry it through everything to victory, if victory were possible.

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…

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.

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.