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Animosity is not a policy.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Animosity
Policy
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Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Sympathy
Recognition
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I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Nations
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We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Cuba
Spain
Pass
Suffer
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We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Distracted
Embittered
Lands
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True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Religion
Americanism
Race
Divisions
Opposed
Resting
Utterly
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Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Free Will
Ideal
Render
Service
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True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Americanism
Enormous
Gravity
Labor
Confront
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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Idealism
Ideals
Monopoly
Differ
Establish
Tried
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The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Independence
Possession
Single
States
United
United States
Precious
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Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Compassion
Righteousness
Lincoln
Stamp
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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.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Affection
Banner
Devotion
League
Nations
Share
Loved
Flag
Give
Invented
Mongrel
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Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Blood
Gratitude
Other Countries
Spain
Ties
Relations
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She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Grim
Mankind
Attain
Benefit
Largely
Perilous
Solution
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Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Internationalism
Alike
Bolshevik
Countries
Illustrated
Provided
Repulsive
Whom
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I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
League
Majority
Mankind
Quickening
Altogether
Beat
Vast
Hearts
Perish
Steadily
Strongly
Vast Majority
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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.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Barren
England
Harsh
New England
Passing
Regions
Rough
Soil
Stormy
Favored
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Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Contrast
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If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Charles
Empire
Spanish
Stands
Stood
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Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Mistakes
Hopes
In The Past
Shall
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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Danger
Direct
Idealism
Individual
Nations
Dealing
Grave
Serve
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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.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Everlasting
Exhausted
Force
Meddling
Moral
Afflicts
Great World Country
Quarrel
Vigour
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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.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Contests
English Speaking
Given
Paid
Race
Conquerors
Field
Incurred
Injuries
Playing Field
Price
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It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Anarchist
Brutal
Communist
Destruction
Endeavor
Patient
Social Problems
Doctrines
Seek
Rightfully
Sets
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Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Fashion
Honesty
Washington
Entire
Imitate
Qualities
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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 / Former United States Senator
Civilization
Fall
Inheritance
Land
Liberty
Marvelous
Everywhere
Beware
Ordered
Ruin
Stumble
Trifle
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Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Mankind
Stronger
Welfare
Finer
Ideal
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You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Born
Conservative
Fit
Harsh
May
Selfish
Life Me My Life
Life Me May
Adjective
American
All My Life
Any
Apply
Life Me Selfish
Call
Life May Me
My Life
Other
Reactionary
Remained
See
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If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Adjectives
Description
Qualifying
Drop
Something Else
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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 / Former United States Senator
Faults
Fervent
Honor
Pilgrim
Puritan
Shortcomings
Tonight
Great Deal
Slothful
Whom
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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 / Former United States Senator
Power
Best
Good
Europe
Existence
Nations
Quarrels
States
United
United States
World
Will
Best Hope Good
Very
Destroy
Endanger
Her
Interests
Intrigues
Other
Tangle
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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 / Former United States Senator
Civilization
Generous
Inheritance
Liberty
Mankind
Everywhere
Confident
Beware
Nobly
Ordered
Ruin
Served
Stumble
Trifle
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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.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Gold
Law
Thinking
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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 / Former United States Senator
Independence
War
Civilization
Cuba
Exercise
Great Country
Humanity
Influence
Liberty
Standing
States
United States
War Peace Great
Island
Once More
Raging
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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 / Former United States Senator
Compelled
Confined
Ideals
Noble
Tainted
Tied
Peace Great World
Bargain
Benefit
Carry
Deformed
Experiment
Rider
Treaty
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