Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly

“Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous 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

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
Category: freedom
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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment

“Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?”

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
Category: peace
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Standing, as I believe the United States

“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

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
Category: peace
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