Here is again the same note, always so true and clear, that the United States are not colonies but an independent nation.
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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It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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There are people to-day, not many luckily, whose families have been here for two hundred and fifty years, and who are as utterly un-American as it is possible to be, while there are others, whose fathers were immigrants, who are as…
The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.
George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest possibilities of humanity.
High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.
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He had that entire simplicity of manners and modes of life which is the crowning result of the highest culture and the finest nature.
The vulgar hatred of wealth found no place in his heart.
There is nothing in human beings at once so sane and so sympathetic as a sense of humor.
He never by any chance bored the American people.
He flung aside the suggestion of supreme power, not simply as dishonorable and unpatriotic, but because such a result would have defeated the one great and noble object at which he aimed.