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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 having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own

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 having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Government, Hands, People
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Two, Understanding

No one can insult you without your permission.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Insults You, Insult, Permission

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom, War, Fighting
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Attitude, Sacrifice

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Happiness, This Too Shall Pass
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wise, People, Leader
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Motivational, Strength
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Love, Regret, Stress
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Children, Real

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition, Use, Merit

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Acceptance, Men, Firsts
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.187, Westminster John Knox Press

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights, Often Is, Important

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, Hate, Political

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspirational, Leader, Followers
Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Teacher, Peace

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Men, Hunger

I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rich, Worthwhile, Enjoy
Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Education, People, Way
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.79, Da Capo Press

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mind, Navy, Body

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Bored, Boring

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Moving, Heart, Frustration
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

Eleanor Roosevelt
Feelings, Degrees, World

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Government, People, Discrimination
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Caring, Love Is, Giving

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