"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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"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.“
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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."
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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."
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"We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain."
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"Education is the mother of leadership."
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