Henry Cabot Lodge: “The last hour of Washington showed that calm, collected courage which had never failed in war or peace; and so far it…”

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

He never by any chance bored the American people.

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…

The other idea which had grown in his mind during the weary siege was that the Tories were thoroughly dangerous and deserved scant mercy.