Henry Cabot Lodge: “He chose with the sureness of a strong and penetrating mind, and the most signal example of this capacity was his…”

His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.

But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.