Wendell Willkie Quotes

Education is the mother of leadership.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

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.

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.

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

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

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.

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.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

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.

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.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

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.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Free men are the strongest men.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

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

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

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.

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.