As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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, Jr.
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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, Jr.
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, Jr.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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, Jr.
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?