Henry Cabot Lodge: “It should be the policy of the United States to administer to their wants without being engaged in their quarrels.”

The generosity of our allies has a claim to all our confidence and all our gratitude, but it is neither for the honor of America, nor for the interest of the common cause, to leave the work entirely to them.

To have refused supreme rule, and then to have effected in the spirit and under the forms of free government all and more than the most brilliant of military chiefs could have achieved by absolute power, is a glory which belongs to…

To put aside a crown for love of country is noble, but to look down upon such an opportunity indicates a much greater loftiness and strength of mind.

The historian and the biographer may fail to do him justice, but the instinct of mankind will not fail.