"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years."
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Activists from the United StatesLawyers from New York (state)Episcopalians from the United StatesUnited States presidential candidates, 1944Republican Party (United States) politicians
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He was actually quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., during an America's Town Meeting of the Air broadcast, at The Town Hall in New York City, (January 6, 1938)
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Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican candidate for president.
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