Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1774
AUTHOR:
Wendell Lewis Willkie (18921944)
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. 27374 (1940).