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. Wendell Willkie More Quotes by Wendell Willkie More Quotes From Wendell Willkie Tolerance is the assumption of superiority Wendell Willkie superiority tolerance assumption Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. Wendell Willkie productive strong What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy. Wendell Willkie powerful men enemy But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. Wendell Willkie granted historical facts 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 change views europe The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell Willkie equality doe class 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 race war 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 fighting home war American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit. Wendell Willkie american-liberty liberty spirit Free men are the strongest men. Wendell Willkie free-man strongest men There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people. Wendell Willkie america people world The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. Wendell Willkie airplane dimensions world No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. Wendell Willkie men war people 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 wells want mean 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 winning work I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. Wendell Willkie gains loss believe 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 events power europe To surpress 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. Wendell Willkie I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. Wendell Willkie searching activity political past But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. Wendell Willkie single freedom process war
