Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About War
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I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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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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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.
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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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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.
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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
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This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
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... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?
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Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
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This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.
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When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Born: October 11, 1884
- Died: November 7, 1962
- Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States
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