Henry Cabot Lodge: “So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”

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.

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.

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

Clearness and precision of plan as to the central point, joined to a perfect readiness to change suddenly and strike hard and decisively in a totally different quarter, are sure marks of the great commander.