His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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Henry Cabot Lodge was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. He voted in favor of American entry into World War I and his successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations. His penned conditions against that treaty, known collectively as the Lodge Reservations, influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.
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So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.
His ideal of public service was to be found in his life, and as his life drew to its close he had to meet his ideal of sacrifice face to face.
When the future historian traces Theodore Roosevelt's extraordinary career he will find these embodied ideals planted like milestones along the road over which he marched.
But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
The blood of some ancestral Scotch covenanter or of some Dutch reformed preacher facing the tyranny of Philip of Spain was in his veins, and with his large opportunities and his vast audiences he was always ready to appeal for justice and…
He preached unceasingly the familiar morals which lie at the bottom of both family and public life.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.
He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.