Henry Cabot Lodge: “He never failed to see the forest on account of the trees, or the city on account of the houses.”

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

I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or…

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

He had that entire simplicity of manners and modes of life which is the crowning result of the highest culture and the finest nature.