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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
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Indiana
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Lewis Wendell Willkie
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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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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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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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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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Education is the mother of leadership.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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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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Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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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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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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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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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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