721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

If you lose money you lose much,If you lose friends you lose more,If you lose faith you lose all.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.