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Wendell Willkie
American
Lawyer
Born:
Feb 18
,
1892
Died:
Oct 8
,
1944
Fight
Free
Freedom
Good
Own
War
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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 Willkie
Government
People
Strong
Free
Be Strong
Power
Weakness
Only
Concentrated
Reach
Government Power
Dictators
Productive
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
Vote
Political
Become
Intolerant
Catching
Parties
Political Parties
Tolerant
Groups
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
War
Military
Emancipation
Would
Slower
Colored
Come
Without
Came
Reform
America
Process
Race
Social
Act
Measure
Humanitarian
Necessity
Enlightenment
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
Good
Manners
Pleasantly
Good Manners
Bad
Able
Bad Ones
Put
Test
Up
Free men are the strongest men.
Wendell Willkie
Freedom
Men
Free
Strongest
Free Men
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Willkie
Day
Cause
Will
Lose
Would
Some
Triumph
Rather
Fail
Know
Than
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
Wendell Willkie
World
Long
Own
Our
States
Has-Been
Something
Imperialism
Imperialistic
Outside
Outside World
Had
Toward
Boundaries
Since
Within
Been
Any
While
Race
United
United States
Amount
Designs
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 Willkie
Freedom
Opportunity
Become
Own
Society
Our
All Nations
Paradoxes
Clear
Longer
Talk
Mocking
Nations
Ignored
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
Good
Communication
Analysis
Obscure
Years
Fifty
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
Education
Leadership
Mother
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.
Wendell Willkie
Democracy
Change
Lover
Our
Must
Consternation
Some
Totalitarian
Had
Prospect
Policies
Trade
Methods
German
Dominated
Any
Form
Might
View
Europe
Present
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie
Live
We Cannot
Must
Fact
Take
Make
Historical
Historical Fact
Just
Cannot
Granted
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
Life
History
Wealth
Stronger
Other
Our
Way
More
Come
Industry
Than
Any
Human
Any Other Way
Shows
Enlightenment
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
Life
Power
Lost
Controlling
Our
Way
Atlantic
Facilities
Hostile
Most
Were
Ships
Dominated
Germany
Might
Fleet
Europe
Captured
Event
British
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 Willkie
Freedom
Others
Everyone
Our
Ourselves
Must
Inside
About
Outside
Talk
Well
Frontiers
Want
Mean
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.
Wendell Willkie
Own
Busy
Thinking
Guard
Others
Our
Those
Out
Cry
Essential
While
Against
Themselves
Prejudices
Who
Therefore
Among
Applicable
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