Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.