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. -Henry Cabot Lodge Hope
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. -Henry Cabot Lodge Great
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence. -Henry Cabot Lodge Independence
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. -Henry Cabot Lodge Religion
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. -Henry Cabot Lodge Power
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. -Henry Cabot Lodge Business
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well. -Henry Cabot Lodge Sympathy
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence. -Henry Cabot Lodge Peace
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. -Henry Cabot Lodge Independence
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence. -Henry Cabot Lodge War
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. -Henry Cabot Lodge Freedom