I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for… — 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
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
...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up,… — 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
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate 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
