Henry Cabot Lodge: “Energy, ability, and the most entire courage were the secret of his extraordinary success.”

Fortitude in misfortune is more common than composure in the hour of victory.

He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.

Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.

I can answer those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room, by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or…