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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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New York City
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First Lady of the world
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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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 hands.
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What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.
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Beautiful old people are works of art.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.
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Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
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Curiosity must be kept alive.
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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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We must want for others, not ourselves alone.
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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
I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
