One World Quotes

“They will become real only if the people of the world forge them into actuality.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“covenant were submitted to the United States Senate for ratification. And there arose one of the most dramatic episodes in American history. I cannot here trace the details of that fight which resulted in rejection on the part of the United States of world leadership.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Most of the people in Asia have never known democracy. They may or may not want our type of democracy.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“The recreation of the small countries of Europe as political units, yes; their recreation as economic and military units, no, if we really hope to bring stabilization to western Europe both for its own benefit and for the peace and economic security of the world.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“If we permit ourselves to become involved in the machinations of Old World intrigue and religious, nationalistic and racial blocs, we will find ourselves amateurs indeed. If we stand true to our basic principles, then we shall find ourselves professionals of the kind of world toward which men in every part of it are aspiring.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“When I asked him if he thought it would survive the strain of the old Kuomintang-Communist enmity after the war, he frankly was not willing to mike predictions. However, he had undoubted respect for and faith in the selfless devotion of the Generalissimo to China. He was not so sure of some of her other leaders. He left me with the feeling that if all Chinese Communists are like himself, their movement is more a national and agrarian awakening than an international or proletarian conspiracy.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Only science, he wrote me, “can solve the pain of human beings, make up the defects of nature, raise the standard of living of human beings, and make the whole human being struggle with nature but not with mankind.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Perhaps the most significant fact in the world today is the awakening that is going on in the East. Even if we win this war militarily, this awakening will still have to be reckoned with.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Russia is neither going to eat us nor seduce us.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“For I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“or a new leader will arise with a fierce fanaticism who will coalesce these discontents. And the result will be of necessity either the complete withdrawal of outside powers with a complete loss of democratic influence or complete military occupation and control of the countries by those outside powers.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“For the present lack of equilibrium between these peoples and their world is a potential source of conflict, the possible origin of another war.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Coupled everywhere with the problem of education in the Middle East was that of medicine and public health.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“There is no other appropriate place in the world where the persecuted Jews of Europe can come. And no matter how much we may wish it, that persecution will not end in your lifetime or in mine. The Jews must have a national homeland. I am an ardent Zionist, but I do not believe that there is a necessary antagonism between the hopes of the Jews and the rights of the Arabs.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“By the end of the day, I felt a great temptation to conclude that the only solution of this tangled problem must be as drastic as Solomon’s.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“Mr. Willkie,” he continued, “some people forget that I and my associates represent France. They apparently do not have in mind France’s glorious history. They are thinking in terms of its momentary eclipse.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“I found in Russia, in China, everywhere, a growing spirit of fervid nationalism, a disturbing thing to one who believes that the only hope of the world lies in the opposite trend.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“They need more education.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“In the first place, I was convinced that all these peoples were more on our side than against us. Partly, this was simply because America was far away and not exercising any control over them. These are important reasons, by the way, for such popularity as the Germans still enjoy—in Iran, for example.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World

“There are no distant points in the world any longer. I learned by this trip that the myriad millions of human beings of the Far East are as close to us as Los Angeles is to New York by the fastest trains. I cannot escape the conviction that in the future what concerns them must concern us, almost as much as the problems of the people of California concern the people of New York.”
― Wendell L. Willkie, One World