"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
Topic(s):
Government
More From Wendell Willkie
- "Education is the mother of leadership."
- "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."
- "We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain."
More In Government
- "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."― Thomas Jefferson
- "Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."― Russell Baker
- "I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they’ve made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!"― Mindy Kaling