Henry Cabot Lodge

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he…

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It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not…

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Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in…

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

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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain…

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The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking…

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

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The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and…

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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to…

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

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The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I…

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The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if…

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You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply,…

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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name…

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True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

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Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and…

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

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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

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“I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think…

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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…

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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great…

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