Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Mean, Political

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

• What one has to do usually can be done.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Encouraging, Work, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Long, Political

• ...without equality there can be no democracy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Political, Democracy, Politics

• So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Husband, Book, Wife

• If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Political, Goldfish, Politics

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

• ...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Political, Politics

• I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Play, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.39, Da Capo Press

• I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Country, Soulmate

• Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Talking, Wife, Car

• The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Decision, Political, Apathy

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

• Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Organization, Decision, World

• I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wife, Majority, Politics

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

• 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.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Games, Would Be

• 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”

• You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Fall, Sloth

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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