Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

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 LodgePolitician · American · 1850 – 1924
More from Henry Cabot Lodge
Peace Quotes
#Purpose
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. — William Shakespeare
  • Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. — Thomas Jefferson
  • True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us. — Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. — Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. — Henry Cabot Lodge
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026