Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Rooseveltwas an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 October 1884
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.
Everybody wants something.
We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The war for freedom will never really be wonbecause the price of our freedom is constant vigilanceover ourselves and over our Government.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that 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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.