Wendell Willkie Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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

  Strength, Being Strong, Peace

  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.

• 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.

  Wendell Willkie

  War, Home, Fighting

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

• 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

  Military, War, Race

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  Wendell Willkie

  War, Men, People

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