“ For this scholarly statesman, this idealist in politics, this campaign orator, brought to this difficult task resources of a sort that no other public man of his time, so far as we are aware, could command. ”

“ Of course this independence, fine as it was in itself, would have been of little avail had it not been accompanied, on the one hand, by generally sound and intelligent judgment in forming his opinions, and, on the other, by very great powers in persuading and convincing the minds of men. ”

“ IT is probably within bounds to say that no single man in the last sixty years, with the exception of Lincoln, had a more effective influence on popular political action in the United States than Carl Schurz. ”