Wendell Willkie Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

“Free men are the strongest men.”

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

“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.”

“If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.”