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Quotation from First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear") by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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 paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear"), Paragraph 1 (Avalon Project printed text)
The sentence for which the speech is remembered, aimed at the panic that had closed the banks.
Citation: "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 paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear"), Paragraph 1 (Avalon Project printed text). (id fdr-first-inaugural-address-q2)
Portrait: FDR inauguration 02894u, Architect of the Capitol, Public domain.
