I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
