Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

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Henry Cabot Lodge

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 12, 1850

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

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If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

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True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

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The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

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I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

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Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

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Animosity is not a policy.

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I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

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I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

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The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

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