Wendell Willkie Quotes
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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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.
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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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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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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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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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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.
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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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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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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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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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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.
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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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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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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.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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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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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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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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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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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.
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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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