Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The President got the idea for this famous line by reading Thoreau {623573}. Also see Elizabeth I {636845}.for a similar sentiment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States (Democrat, NY), First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
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The President later addressed this in his "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speech – See {636844}.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt {636844} and Henry David Thoreau {35833} for similar later statements.
According to Burns, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while drafting his First Inaugural Address, was reading some Thoreau material and was so impressed with this thought relative to the fear that the Great Depression had brought to the American people, that he used it in his speech/ See {636844}. Also, see Queen Elizabeth I {636845}.
See Thoreau {623573} and FDR {636844} for similar sentiments.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II, which ended shortly after he died in office.
