Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

No one should abandon his county's interest upon entering the portals of the United Nations.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

I have never had but one allegiance; I can not divide it now. I have never loved but one flag, and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.

Unlike many other peoples less happy, we give our devotion to a Government, to its Constitution, to its flag, and not to men.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I honour my God; I serve my Queen; I salute my flag

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

I despise any flag, not just the American flag. It's a symbol of a piece of land that's considered more important than the human lives on it.

A flag should unite those over whom it flies.

If the savior of man would revisit and declare himself for a League of Nations, I would be opposed to it.

We can imagine no more appropriate response to burning a flag than to waving one's own, no better way to counter a flag-burner's message than by saluting the flag that burns, no surer means of preserving the dignity even of the flag that burned than by, as one witness here did, according its remains a respectful burial.

Respect for the flag transcends political party.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige.

It's your flag and my flag.

When I look at his gallant services, finding him first in the military school of the United States, educated at the expense of his country—taught to love the principles of the Constitution; afterwards entering its service fighting beneath the Stars and Stripes, ... I cannot understand how he can be willing to hail another banner, and turn from that of his country; .... If I could not unsheathe my sword in vindication of the flag of my country, ... I would return the sword to its scabbard; I would never sheathe it in the bosom of my mother. Never! Never! Never!

I do not applaud our quitting the League [of Nations]. The people act as if by withdrawing we have achieved something great …. This shows the shallowness of thought of the Japanese public.