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
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
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — 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
... 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
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human… — 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… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every… — 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
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
“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
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
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
