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Wendell Willkie

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Wendell Willkie may not have a Wikipedia page, but their words have earned a place in our collection all the same. Their thinking spans from Freedom to Work, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 13 of Wendell Willkie's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Freedom, Work, War, Society, and Relationship. As Wendell Willkie put it: "We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain."

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Freedom

All Quotes by Wendell Willkie

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Government

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Work

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Freedom

“We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.”

— Wendell Willkie

Relationship

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Freedom

“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

War

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Happiness

“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

Freedom

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

— Wendell Willkie

Education

“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.”

— Wendell Willkie

Freedom