Quotes by Henry Cabot Lodge

“The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.”

“Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.”

“The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.”

“As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.”

“I guess it wouldnt discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.”

“This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isnt created to take you to heaven.”

“It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.”

“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”

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

“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 American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed”

“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”

“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.”

“Animosity is not a policy”

This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isnt created to take you to heaven.

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.

The United States is the worlds 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 primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

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.

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