Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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