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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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. – Wendell Willkie

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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity – and an obligation – to help them turn this desire into reality. – Condoleezza Rice

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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And thats what Im trying to do. – Quentin Tarantino

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. – W. Somerset Maugham

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. – Aldous Huxley

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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what Im saying, cause music is freedom and being free is the closest Ive ever felt to being spiritual. – Ben Harper

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