Wendell Willkie Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

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.