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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
Wendell Willkie
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Wendell Willkie
Age: 52 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 18
Died: 1944
Died: October 8
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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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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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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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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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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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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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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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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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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 modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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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 believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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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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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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Free men are the strongest men.
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