Henry Cabot Lodge: “To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater…”

We know what the compromises finally were, and how they were brought about, but we can never do exact justice to the iron will which held men together when all compromises seemed impossible, and which even in the darkest hour would not…

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…

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

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.