Henry Cabot Lodge: “But he had also something larger and rarer than courage, in the ordinary acceptation of the word.”

Let us imitate this prudence; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able to conjecture where we now are.

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.

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

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.