Henry Cabot Lodge: “We have a strong feeling of the injustice of any toleration of slavery.”

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…

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.

The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence and all our gratitude, but it is neither for the honor of America, nor for the interest of the common cause, to leave the work entirely to them.

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.