"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."
— Strength

January 1, 1970

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Wendell Willkie, speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for U.S. President, at Elwood, Indiana (August 17, 1940), This Is Wendell Willkie (1940), pp. 273–74