"I am convinced that every effort must..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.”

“It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.”

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”

“[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.”

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.”

“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.”

“No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?”

“Consider data without prejudice.”

“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.”