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Wendell Willkie Quotes
American
-
Lawyer
February 18, 1892 - October 8, 1944
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
Good
Communication
Obscure
Years
Analysis
Fifty
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
Hard Work
Work
Will
Win
Comfort
Danger
Direction
Ease
Honest
Iron
Resolution
Find
Hard
Only
Turn
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell Willkie
Love
Hate
Way
Liberty
Liberties
Loss
Opening
Whenever
Whom
Away
Take
Those
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
Will
Lose
Know
Cause
Fail
Triumph
Rather
Some
Than
Would
Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
Mother
Education
Leadership
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
Power
People
Government
Be Strong
Concentrated
Dictators
Government Power
Productive
Reach
Weakness
Free
Only
Strong
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie
Good
Bad
Manners
Test
Bad Ones
Good Manners
Pleasantly
Able
Put
Up
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie
World
Matter
True
Country
Foreign
Governing
Imperialism
Incompatible
Outlook
How
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
Political
Vote
Become
Catching
Groups
Intolerant
Parties
Political Parties
Tolerant
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
Democracy
View
Must
Consternation
Dominated
Europe
German
Lover
Methods
Policies
Present
Prospect
Totalitarian
Trade
Any
Form
Had
Might
Our
Some
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
Freedom
War
Crisis
Process
Accomplished
Disastrous
Hour
Human Freedom
Question
Required
Shackles
Slave
Striking
Bring
Human
Single
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie
Live
Must
Cannot
Just
Granted
Historical
Historical Fact
We Cannot
Fact
Make
Take
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
America
Process
Enlightenment
Colored
Emancipation
Humanitarian
Measure
Military
Necessity
Race
Reform
Slower
Act
Came
Come
Social
Without
Would
For 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
Love
Hate
Way
Liberty
Forefront
Liberties
Loss
Minds
Opening
Whenever
Away
Ever
Fact
Keep
More
Must
Now
Our
Take
Than
Those
Free men are the strongest men.
Wendell Willkie
Freedom
Men
Free
Strongest
Free Men
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
Freedom
Fight
Matter
Skin
Agree
Be Prepared
Color
Extend
Indivisible
Poor
Prepared
Race
Rich
Enjoy
Everyone
Must
Us
Want
Whether
Word
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
Life
Happiness
History
Way
Any Other Way
Enlightenment
Industry
Stronger
Wealth
Any
Come
Human
More
Other
Our
Shows
Than
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
Past
Political
Congress
Out
Activity
Administration
Beliefs
Distress
Excessive
Impertinent
Indecent
Individuals
Investigating
Noticed
Political Beliefs
Private
Private Lives
Searching
Wartime
Lives
Much
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
Way
Lost
Atlantic
British
Captured
Controlling
Dominated
Europe
Event
Facilities
Fleet
Germany
Hostile
Ships
Might
Most
Our
Were
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
Must
Everyone
Frontiers
Inside
Outside
About
Mean
Our
Ourselves
Talk
Want
Well
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
Wendell Willkie
Fight
Government
Pressure
Must
Addition
Citizens
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Groups
Legitimate
Liberties
Limit
Movements
Seek
Stages
Any
Our
Party
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
Long
World
Something
Race
Amount
Boundaries
Designs
Imperialism
Imperialistic
Outside
Outside World
Toward
Any
Been
Had
Has-Been
Our
Own
Since
States
United
United States
While
Within
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
Thinking
Busy
Who
Cry
Among
Applicable
Essential
Guard
Prejudices
Therefore
Against
Others
Our
Out
Own
Themselves
Those
While
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Wendell Willkie
War
Man
Great
People
Indirectly
Lead
Powers
Presidency
Right
Use
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Wendell Willkie
Constitution
First
Class
Citizens
Provide
Does
Second
Second-Class
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
Home
Democracy
Without
Some
Apparent
Defense
Failures
Forces
Function
Threaten
Against
Made
Our
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
Today
War
Home
Fight
Abroad
Apparent
Becoming
Forces
Imperialism
Increasingly
Maintain
Thoughtful
We Cannot
American
Any
Cannot
Done
Form
Ideas
Our
Thinking
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Wendell Willkie
Good
Free
Who
Live
British
Conscience
Decided
Expect
India
Liberation
Orderly
Schedule
We Cannot
America
Before
Cannot
Make
Ourselves
Set
Up
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie
Great
Relationship
Face
Must
Britain
Great Britain
Honestly
Our
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
Society
Opportunity
Own
All Nations
Clear
Ignored
Longer
Mocking
Nations
Paradoxes
Become
Our
Talk
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