| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1774 |
| AUTHOR: | Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892–1944) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WENDELL WILLKIE, speech accepting nomination as Republican candidate for president, Elwood, Indiana, August 17, 1940.—Willkie, This Is Wendell Willkie, pp. 273–74 (1940). |
| SUBJECTS: | Strength |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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