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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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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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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. – Wendell Willkie

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Government
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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. – Wendell Willkie

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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I mean, were going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as Im alive. – Paul Wolfowitz

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War itself is the enemy of the human race. – Howard Zinn

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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. – Ernie Pyle

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