Henry Cabot Lodge: “So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him…”

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So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Lodge uses a metaphor to describe Roosevelt's passing, highlighting the honor associated with his life.

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His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.

No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.

He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.

Henry Cabot Lodge: “So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”