"This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland],……" — Eleanor Roosevelt
"This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!"
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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390 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the…
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Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own…
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The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they…
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to…
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small…
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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.
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Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
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The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with…
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of…
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