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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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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

Category:
Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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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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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham

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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. – Buffalo Bill

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Government

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. Its the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. – Lily Tomlin

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Government

The government is us we are the government, you and I. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Who so loves believes the impossible. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten oclock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. – John Hersey

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Morning

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Liberty