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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. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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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

#bolshevik #countries #illustrated #internationalism #make

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

#because #believe #better #ever #finer

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#free #free will #future #her #ideal

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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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

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

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

#destroy #endanger #europe #existence #fetter

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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