Wendell Willkie Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.”

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

“The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.”