Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

• The businessman dealing with a large political question is really a painful sight. It does seem to me that businessmen, with a few exceptions, are worse when they come to deal with politics than men of any other class.

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• New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

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• 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.

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

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• Animosity is not a policy.

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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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• Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

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• We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

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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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• It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

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

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

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Henry Cabot Lodge (35)

Birth:	12th May, 1850
Death:	9th November, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Politician

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Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American Republican politician and historian. In 1872, he graduated from Harvard College. In 1874, he graduated from Harvard Law School. He received his PhD in history from Harvard. He served as Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1880–1882. He served as U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th district from 1887-1893. He had the role of the first Senate Majority Leader. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. He served as United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1893-1924.

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