37 Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge

Excitement is impossible where there is no contest.

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.