Author: Wendell Willkie

Quotes

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

- Wendell Willkie

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.

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

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

- Wendell Willkie

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

- Wendell Willkie

Free men are the strongest men.

Free men are the strongest men.

- Wendell Willkie

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

- Wendell Willkie

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