Henry Cabot Lodge

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.”

“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.”

“This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”

“May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.”

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

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

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