Wendell Willkie Quotes
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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.
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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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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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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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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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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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.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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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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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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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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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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I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
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Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.