“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
My Day (Primary source)
Collections of Roosevelt’s syndicated newspaper column written six days weekly from 1935-1962, offering accessible, diary-like observations on daily life, politics, civil rights, and current events that reached millions of American readers.
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
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“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better goverment.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“The proud hate pride—in others.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source