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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about War

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Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, Long, Dying

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom, War, Libertarian Party

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, War, Thinking
Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, War, Action
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Suicide, War, Thinking

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, War, Military
"The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 156), 1992.

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Women, War, Fighting
"Female WWII pilots to be honored with float in Rose Parade" by Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2014.

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”

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, Believe, Winning
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

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

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Morning, War, Thinking

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

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

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, People, Safety
"My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. December 20, 1961.

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, Children, War

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, War, Principles

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Eleanor Roosevelt
War, Army, Opportunity

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

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

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