We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.
Eleanor RooseveltWhen you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
Eleanor RooseveltYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor RooseveltPeople grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltOne of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
Eleanor RooseveltSmearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.
Eleanor Roosevelt