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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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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. – Wendell Willkie

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Happiness
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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

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Cursed be he above all others Whos enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. – Anacreon

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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. – Herman Kahn

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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. – Winston Churchill

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The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and Im not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, thats for damn sure. – Jon Bon Jovi

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In my particular instance, I came from a family that didnt have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. – Billy Corgan

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