Henry Cabot Lodge: “What bore him up was the dauntless spirit which could rise victorious over pain and darkness and the unknown and meet…”

Men are the creatures of the time in which they live, and take their color from the conditions which surround them, as the chameleon does from the grass or leaves in which it hides.

One was the conviction that the struggle must be fought out to the bitter end, and must bring either subjugation or complete independence.

He fought to free the colonies from England, and make them independent, not to play the part of a Cæsar or a Cromwell in the wreck and confusion of civil war.

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.