Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Quotations

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.

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.

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.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.