Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes


Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.


Citations

Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The League of Nations." Congressional Record, 66th Congress, 1st Session, 12 Aug. 1919, p. 3784.

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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Born: May 12, 1850
  • Died: November 9, 1924
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy. His successful crusade against Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations and his reservations against that treaty influenced the structure of the modern United Nations.