Wendell Willkie quotes
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“Education is the mother of leadership.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”
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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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“The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.”
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“A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.”
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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.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster
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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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“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 WillkieSource : Speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president in Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940); as quoted in "This Is Wendell Willkie" by Wendell Willkie, (p. 273 - 274), 1940.
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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.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”
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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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“Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.”
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“Tolerance is the assumption of superiority”
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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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“American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.”
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“A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”
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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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“Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.”
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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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“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 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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“If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”
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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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“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.”
-- Wendell WillkieSource : One World (1943) ch. 13
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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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“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
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“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.”
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“And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.”
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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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“But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.”
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“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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“I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.”
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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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“Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.”
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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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