Quote by Wendell Willkie
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrat

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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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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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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Freedom
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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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I dont make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers

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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. – James Madison

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You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. – Mitt Romney

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that dont get wet you can keep. – Will Rogers

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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell

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It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. – W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. – O. Henry

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