16 Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn’t created to take you to heaven.

The Federal Reserve Act as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I do not like to think that any law can be passed that will make it possible to submerge the gold standard in a flood of irredeemable paper currency.

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.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.