The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours! — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You need not be proud of me… I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that… — 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
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
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“we have one weakness that, considering our political maturity as a nation, is rather immature. We continue to expect the world to… — 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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