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Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Wendell Willkie

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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
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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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.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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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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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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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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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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