Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. quotes
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“Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.”
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“This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”
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“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.”
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“May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.”
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“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.”
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“It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.”
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“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”
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“Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.”
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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, Jr.
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Source : "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.242, Hachette UK
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“I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.”
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“My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.”
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