Author: Henry Cabot Lodge

Quotes

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

- 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.

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

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

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.

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.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

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

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

- Henry Cabot Lodge

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

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

- Henry Cabot Lodge

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

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