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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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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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War
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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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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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Freedom
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Wendell Willkie
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen. – Buffalo Bill

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Government

The government invented the Internet. – Jon Meacham

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Government

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. – William O. Douglas

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Government

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it. – Mitt Romney

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Government

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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles. – Julia Stiles

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Leadership

Ill come and make love to you at five oclock. If Im late start without me. – Tallulah Bankhead

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Love

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. – Sophocles

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Trust

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. – Charles Schumer

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Hope