Wendell Willkie (American - Lawyer)
February 18, 1892 - October 8, 1944
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.
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.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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.
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Education is the mother of leadership.
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.
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.
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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