Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Liberty
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
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Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
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The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
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We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
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All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States