"The answer is what it has always been. To the liberal tne purpose of government is unchangeable. It is to leave mien free.... And the liberal does not see in the present administration any will to leave men free. He sees duly an attempt to increase the powers of government.
On another occasion Willkie said government "drunk with power" was at least as dangerous as business men similarly intoxicated and charged that "the abuses that corrupted the 1920s have been transferred from Wall Street to Washington."
Willkie did not nominate himself as a Presidential prospect.
"I am not in the slightest sense of ihe word a candidate for President of the United States," he said last April 4, "and I have not the slightest delusion about being nominated."
Last April 25 he admitted he was "honoured" by and "interested" in allusions to his political availability but said he was more concerned with the "principles in which I believe" than in any hypothetical presidential prospects he might have.
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