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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

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
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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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There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.
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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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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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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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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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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 constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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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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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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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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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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Free men are the strongest men.
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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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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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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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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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