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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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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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin. – 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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America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. – Peter Kropotkin

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. – Richard G. Scott

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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. – George Soros

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck

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That best portion of a mans life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. – William Wordsworth

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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. – Charles Horton Cooley

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