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
Topics: Strength
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
—Wendell Willkie
Topics: Manners
Education is the mother of leadership.
—Wendell Willkie
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
—Wendell Willkie
Topics: Failure
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
Topics: Freedom
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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