Eleanor Roosevelt

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving tonight. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never say in the morning, ‘I have a headache and cannot do thus and so’. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people’s lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can’t do some of the things I want.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I don’t know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I’m not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have complete faith in the American people’s ability if they know and if they have leadership.

Eleanor Roosevelt