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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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Indiana
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Lewis Wendell Willkie
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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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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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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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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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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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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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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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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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There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.
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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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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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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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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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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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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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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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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