Eleanor Roosevelt War Quotations

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

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.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

... 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?

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.

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.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The war for freedom will never really be wonbecause the price of our freedom is constant vigilanceover ourselves and over our Government.

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.