More from Eleanor Roosevelt

  1. Brief biography at the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
  2. I have lost more than a beloved friend. I have lost an inspiration. She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow ha…
  3. America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.
  4. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
  5. Example is the best lesson there is.
  6. What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the …
  7. We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the s…
  8. There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to …

All Eleanor Roosevelt quotes