Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes
We must be now and forever for Americanism and Nationalism and against Internationalism.
Henry Cabot Lodge, 1850-1924, U. S. Congressman & U. S. Senator (Republican, MA), Keynote speech, Republican National Convention, Chicago, 1920
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Obama was the first sitting president to ever use the actual phrase. Others had talked about the concept but never used the words.
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.
