Wendell Willkie Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Wendell Willkie

  Happiness, Enlightenment, Stronger

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• Free men are the strongest men.

  Wendell Willkie

  Men, Strongest, Free Man

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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.

  Wendell Willkie

  Honesty, Work, Winning

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• American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

  Wendell Willkie

  Liberty, Spirit, American Liberty

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• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Wendell Willkie

  Equality, Class, Doe

  An American Program ch. 2 (1944)

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• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Airplane, World, Dimensions

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• I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

  Wendell Willkie

  Believe, Loss, Gains

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

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• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  Wendell Willkie

  Historical, Facts, Granted

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• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  Wendell Willkie

  Relationship, Faces, Honest

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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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  Military, War, Race

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

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• There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

  Wendell Willkie

  America, People, World

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

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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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  War, Home, Fighting

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

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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.

  Wendell Willkie

  Power, Europe, Events

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