Henry Cabot Lodge – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world’s peace and to the welfare of mankind.

– 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

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous 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

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

– Henry Cabot Lodge

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.

– Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

– Henry Cabot Lodge

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

– Henry Cabot Lodge

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

– Henry Cabot Lodge