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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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

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Freedom
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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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work
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If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom. – Kofi Annan

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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones house. – James Otis

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People demand freedom only when they have no power. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Freedom

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. – David Icke

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Freedom

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Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? – Patrick Sky

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Honesty

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this countrys principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. – Chris Christie

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Wisdom

You may be a redneck if… you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. – Jeff Foxworthy

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Education

Talent is only the starting point. – Irving Berlin

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Talent