In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror".
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself: nameless, unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyses needed effort to convert retreat into advance," he intoned.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless unreasoning unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said at his first inauguration, in the depths of the Depression in 1933, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
The words of his inauguration speech on 4 March 1933 once more echo around the world: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
But Mr. Obama is bucking a deep private-sector funk, a bit like what Roosevelt described in his first Inaugural Address as "fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
It was the depths of the Depression, and he told his listeners, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
Dispatched to the mill towns of the Carolinas, Gellhorn ventured into slums and Hoovervilles in search of the fountainhead of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that had grown up in the place of the American dream, bearing witness to the slow atrophy of hope and dignity she saw there, and the creeping obsolescence of morality that moved at its side.
In his inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
