I doubt if any man equalled Samuel Adams in formulating and uttering the fierce, clear, and inexorable logic of the Revolution.
The last eight decades have witnessed an Empire spring up in the full panoply of lusty life, from a trackless wilderness.
In their struggle with the forces of nature, the ability to labor was the richest patrimony of the colonist.
The granite hills are not so changeless and abiding as the restless sea.
To him a battle was neither an earthquake, nor a volcano, nor a chaos of brave men and frantic horses involved in vast explosions of gunpowder. It was rather a calm rational combination of force against force.—Oration on Geo. H. Thomas.