"You [future first ladies] will feel that..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing was ever accomplished by anyone who said 'It can't be done.'”

“Smearing 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.”

“I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.”

“The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.”

“I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.”

“Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.”

“There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.”

“I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.”

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”