It is from weakness that pe... by Wendell Willkie, an American Lawyer

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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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Name: Wendell Willkie

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Feb 18, 1892

Date of Death: Oct 8, 1944

Profession: Lawyer

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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

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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.

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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

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