WHO SAID IT?

Okay, this is a quiz.  Who said the following?

"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 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."

"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."

"Contrast the Untied States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found."

These words were spoken by Henry Cabot Lodge.  Lodge was a Republican from Boston who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for six years and the U.S. Senate for 31 years extending from 1887 thru 1924.  He was the Senate Majority Leader the final six years.   He served through the Spanish-American War and World War I.   Some considered him the politician's politician.

He was an advocate of immigration restrictions and opposed the U.S. entering the League of Nations without reservations.  He was the co-author of the Federal Elections Bill which would have guaranteed African Americans the right to vote.  Senate Democrats blocked the bill by filibustering.

In any case, as you can see, the political rhetoric spoken by politicians has not changed much in over 100 years. 
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