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.

Quote by Henry Cabot Lodge

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Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise...

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise...

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting...

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting...

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the...

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the...

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of...

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of...

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

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

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and...

Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and...

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

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

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other...

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other...

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly...

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly...

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and...

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and...

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who...

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who...

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give...

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give...

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for...

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for...

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and...

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and...

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike...

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike...

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and...

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and...

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V...

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V...

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that...

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that...