"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
-Henry Cabot Lodge
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"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.“
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"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
-Henry Cabot Lodge
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"Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence."
-Henry Cabot Lodge
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"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."
-Henry Cabot Lodge
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"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"
-Henry Cabot Lodge
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"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
-H. Rap Brown
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
-Mark Udall
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
-Eric Sevareid
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
-Richard Dreyfuss
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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