Henry Cabot Lodge: “The vulgar hatred of wealth found no place in his heart.”

It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.

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…

There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.

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