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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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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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Government
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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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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E. Frankl

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Liberty is maintained by responsible freedom. – Roger W Hancock, www.PoetPatriot.com

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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. – E. Stanley Jones

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Freedom

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. – Hannah Arendt

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Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. – Alexander Hamilton

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We dont walk. We overeat because weve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the we is all of us. Its not the government. Its all of us doing this together. – Mehmet Oz

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Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux

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I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. – E. Howard Hunt

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