"You may call me selfish if you will conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fr to apply, but an American I was born an American I have remained all my life I can never be anything else but an American and I must thin of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails, the best hopes of mankind fail with it - Henry Cabor Lodge, 191. in the excerpt from Henry Cabot Lodge's speech he was speaking out against A. congressional support for the joint occupation of Germany B. U.S. involvement in the League of Nations. C. the U.S. decision to enter into World War I D. the decision of Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment.