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1. "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

2. "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." ~ Wendell Willkie

3. "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

4. "For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love." ~ Wendell Willkie

5. "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

6. "But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live." ~ Wendell Willkie

7. "Free men are the strongest men." ~ Wendell Willkie

8. "A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country." ~ Wendell Willkie

9. "A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years." ~ Wendell Willkie

10. "And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups." ~ Wendell Willkie

11. "The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent." ~ Wendell Willkie

12. "We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain." ~ Wendell Willkie

13. "I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals." ~ Wendell Willkie

14. "It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism." ~ Wendell Willkie

15. "Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking." ~ Wendell Willkie

16. "We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free." ~ Wendell Willkie

17. "The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones." ~ Wendell Willkie

18. "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

19. "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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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They depen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship."
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