Wendell Willkie Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
• 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…
• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
• There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
• I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
• 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…
• Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
• 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…
• Free men are the strongest men.
• 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…
• 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…
• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
• I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . .…

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