Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

- Eglantyne Jebb

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

- Eglantyne Jebb

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

- Eglantyne Jebb

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worl…

- Eglantyne Jebb

Every war is a war against children.

- Eglantyne Jebb

All wars are waged against children

- Eglantyne Jebb

Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's imp…

- Eglantyne Jebb

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

- Eglantyne Jebb

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

- Eglantyne Jebb