Wendell Willkie Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

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

  Wendell Willkie

• 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

• 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

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

  Wendell Willkie

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

  Wendell Willkie

• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Wendell Willkie

• 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

• 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

Wendell Willkie (31)

Birth:	18th February, 1892
Death:	8th October, 1944
Nationality:	American, German
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

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