Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on President Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for a World Peace

( 1917 ) Commentary by Justus D. Doenecke, New College of Florida

“As a practical question for us, dealing with a condition on which we are to build a future league for peace to which we are to be a party, how are we going to provide that it shall be a peace without victory? How are we to arrange that there shall be no victories?” - Speech on President Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a World Peace
“It seems to me that this plan for securing free access to the sea to all the great nations of Europe, and still more to the nations, both great and small, would involve us in some very difficult questions wholly outside our proper sphere of influence; and yet the President states this as one of the essentials for the lasting peace which we are to covenant to bring about and to enforce.” - Speech on President Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a World Peace
“The wisdom of Washington's policy, supplemented by that of Monroe, has been demonstrated by the experience of more than a century, and this at least must be said, that we should not depart from it without most powerful reasons and without knowing exactly where that departure would lead.” - Speech on President Woodrow Wilson's Plan for a World Peace

Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (Library of Congress)

View Full Size

Related Docs