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 wholly despair.
Lodge emphasizes the remarkable leadership that maintained unity among delegates during the challenging moments of the Constitutional Convention.
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His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
He preached unceasingly the familiar morals which lie at the bottom of both family and public life.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.