Henry Cabot Lodge: “He would never compromise a principle, but he was eminently tolerant of honest differences of opinion.”

It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.

When, without any self-seeking, he was placed at the head of the Revolution, he made up his mind that he would carry it through everything to victory, if victory were possible.

This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his sense of public opinion, one jot from what he meant to do.

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.