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Quote by Wendell Willkie
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure.

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

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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

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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one. – Wendell Willkie

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Flying
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Wendell Willkie
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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

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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. – Ron Paul

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No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So lets support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. – Judy Biggert

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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixons urgings for me to go there. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell

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When you possess light within, you see it externally. – Anaïs Nin

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