Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.


The Day We Celebrate (Forefathers' Day), Address, New England Society of Brooklyn (December 21, 1888).

Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty....

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty....

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty....

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty....