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"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"
- Henry Cabot Lodge
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Henry Cabot Lodge
between May 12, 1850 and November 9, 1924. He/she was a famous
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