Henry Cabot Lodge: “The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and…”

He never by any chance bored the American people.

Let us imitate this prudence; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able to conjecture where we now are.

This was not a safe man for the gentlemen of Pennsylvania to cross too far, nor could they swerve him, with all his sense of public opinion, one jot from what he meant to do.

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