“For 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. 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. For God's
sake, let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where
or when man will find its protective warmth again.”—American lawyer,
industrialist, and 1940 Republican Presidential nominee Wendell Willkie
(1892-1944), One World (1943)
For a
summary of the life and importance of this figure who would be wildly out of
step with the current GOP, see my post from a dozen years ago.
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