Henry Cabot Lodge: “But vehemence is not violence nor is earnestness anger, which a very wise man defined as a brief madness.”

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

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.

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.

He repeatedly referred to the United States, even before the close of the war, as an infant empire, and he saw before any one else the destined growth of the country.