Wendell Willkie Quotes - Page 2

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

Free men are the strongest men.

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.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

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

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

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

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

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

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.

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

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.

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.