Henry Cabot Lodge: “It is the tradition of our politics, and a very poor tradition, that the Vice Presidency is a shelf.”

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.

He never by any chance bored the American people.

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.

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…