American - Lawyer | February 18, 1892 - October 8, 1944
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
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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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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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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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.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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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 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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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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Free men are the strongest men.
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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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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.
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