Henry Cabot Lodge: “Napoleon's marshals were conspicuous proofs of his genius, and Washington had a similar power of selection.”

Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.

Let us imitate this prudence; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able to conjecture where we now are.

If either the temper or the resources of the country will not admit of an alteration, we may expect soon to be reduced to the humiliating condition of seeing the cause of America, in America, upheld by foreign arms.

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.