Henry Cabot Lodge: “All men admire courage, and that he possessed in the highest degree.”

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

The vulgar hatred of wealth found no place in his heart.

I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or…

He never by any chance bored the American people.