Henry Cabot Lodge: “High and splendid character, great moral qualities for after-ages to admire, he had beyond any man of modern times.”

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

We know what the compromises finally were, and how they were brought about, but we can never do exact justice to the iron will which held men together when all compromises seemed impossible, and which even in the darkest hour would not…

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

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…