Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

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.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

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.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

~ 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

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

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

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

~ 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

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

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge