Henry Cabot Lodge: “I would not legislate precipitately, even in favor of them; above all, I would not profess intentions in relation to…”

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.

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

High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.

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…