Henry Cabot Lodge: “Lincoln was undoubtedly the first great American of his type, but that is not the only type of American.”

However, although they seem to have little feeling for the naked and distressed soldiers, I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul I pity those miseries which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent.

He never by any chance bored the American people.

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

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.