Henry Cabot Lodge: “Roosevelt set himself to expel politics and favoritism in appointments and promotions and to crush corruption…”

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…

After stating plainly that the army was on the verge of dissolution, he said: "To me it will appear miraculous if our affairs can maintain themselves much longer in their present train.

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

It is a hard thing to beat an opposing army, but it is equally hard to bring human jealousies and ambitions into the narrow path of self-sacrifice and subordination.