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Henry Cabot Lodge
May 12, 1850 - November 9, 1924
Nationality: American
Category: Politician
Subcategory: American Politician

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

   

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.

   

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

   

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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