It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be … - Wendell Willkie

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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.

Wendell Willkie

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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Education is the mother of leadership.

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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. 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.

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