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Quote by Wendell Willkie
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this questi

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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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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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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To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it. – James McGreevey

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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. – John Barbour

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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. – Jim Morrison

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Thats what we do in this country. Thats the American Dream. Thats freedom, and Ill take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners. – Paul Ryan

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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that Im a good person to society. Thats hard. The talent, thats a gift. I just came here like that. – Erykah Badu

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The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. – Arthur Hailey

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