Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.