Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong. - Henry Cabot Lodge

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. - Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations. - Henry Cabot Lodge

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. - Henry Cabot Lodge

I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer. - Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

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. - Henry Cabot Lodge

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

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. - Henry Cabot Lodge

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. - Henry Cabot Lodge

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. - Henry Cabot Lodge

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