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Free men are the strongest men.

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
Strongest
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Men

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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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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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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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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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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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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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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Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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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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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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