Civilization Quote by Henry Cabot Lodge

“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous 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

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

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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 every village…

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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 serve, and…

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

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