Top 18 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.

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

Washington‘s entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

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

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.

Animosity is not a policy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.