Henry Cabot Lodge: “He pointed out that the proposed protective policy involved a decline of commerce, and that steadiness and uniformity…”

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.

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.

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

This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his sense of public opinion, one jot from what he meant to do.