I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. — 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
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. — 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
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for… — 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
To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... — 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 think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the… — 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
I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership. — 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
The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom… — 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
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