The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence and all our gratitude, but it is neither for the honor of America, nor for the interest of the common cause, to leave the work entirely to them.
Lodge underscores the importance of American self-reliance while acknowledging the contributions of allies during the Revolutionary War.
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He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
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.
When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.