Henry Cabot Lodge: “If we have bound ourselves by any treaty to do certain things, we must fulfil such obligation.”

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.

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.

Clearness and precision of plan as to the central point, joined to a perfect readiness to change suddenly and strike hard and decisively in a totally different quarter, are sure marks of the great commander.

It was a difficult thing for men who had been born colonists to rise to a sense of national opportunities, but Washington passed at a single step from being a Virginian to being an American, and in so doing he stood alone.