Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Quotes

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. — American Politician born on July 05, 1902, died on February 27, 1985

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., sometimes referred to as Henry Cabot Lodge II, was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See. He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Quotes

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