Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Quotes

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn’t created to take you to heaven.

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

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.

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.