Wendell Willkie Quotes

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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Wendell Willkie
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Wendell Willkie
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.

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

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
Any man who is not something of a socialist before he is forty has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist after he is forty has no head.

Wendell Willkie
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
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
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.

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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
There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

Wendell Willkie
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

Wendell Willkie