Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Nature #Morning #Sun
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Organization #Heaven #Politics
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.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Imperfection #United States #May
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.

#Mean #Army #Midnight
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.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#War #Goal #Essentials
It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Dishonesty #Compromise
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Sympathy #Expression #Recognition
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Free Will #Should #Ideals
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.
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#Men #Glowing #Sloth

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. famous quotes

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