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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

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

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

#loved #nations #other #rather #respected

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

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

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience. ↗

— Jeremy London

#experience #gotten #i #like #moral

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#climate #coast #dwellers #england #even

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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