Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Wendell Willkie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
Businessperson
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Elwood
Indiana
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Lewis Wendell Willkie
Home
Americans
Today
Becoming
Imperialism
Ideas
Fight
Apparent
Done
Fighting
Abroad
Thinking
Force
Increasingly
War
Thoughtful
Cannot
Maintain
Form
Forces
More quotes by Wendell Willkie
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Wendell Willkie
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Wendell Willkie
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
Wendell Willkie
Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Wendell Willkie
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell Willkie
Free men are the strongest men.
Wendell Willkie
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
Wendell Willkie
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
