Country Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every age is an unknown country.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that…

— Eleanor Roosevelt