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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? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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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

#ask #best #contrast #country #earth

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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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. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #description #drop #else

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

#charles #days #empire #everything #right

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

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

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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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. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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