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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Wendell Willkie
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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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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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There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.
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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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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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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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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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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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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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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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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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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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