Eleanor Roosevelt

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being – we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Eleanor Roosevelt

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the very desire for help one is apt to forget that the objective should be to enable the individual to stand on his own feet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.

Eleanor Roosevelt