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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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Wendell Lewis Willkie
Lewis Wendell Willkie
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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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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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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.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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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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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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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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Free men are the strongest men.
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No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
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I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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