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Wendell Willkie
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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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