Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.
Wendell Willkie
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Toward
American
America
Today
Good
Reservoir
World
Reservoirs
People
Gigantic
Exists
More quotes by Wendell Willkie
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
Wendell Willkie
Free men are the strongest men.
Wendell Willkie
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
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.
Wendell Willkie
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Wendell Willkie
Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
Wendell Willkie
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Wendell Willkie
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Wendell Willkie
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
