The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
From Henry Cabot Lodge
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
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.
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