...people across America cluster around their radios. The new president speaks in a reassuring voice: "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Then he gets to the meat of his talk. "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining...

...March 4, 1933, Inaugural Address, spoke about when he told the frightened American people: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning,...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Some women fear fear. They go out of their way to avoid all situations, people, and places that threaten...

...regulators check that they are sound. Three days later, Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. "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...

...determine our success or failure. I don't know about you, but I'd rather believe God. A Word in Season "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...

...country. Roosevelt: This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. 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...

...in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. 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...

...will endure as it has endured, will revive, and will prosper. S So first of all let me assert myself, my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear...is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified tenror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. 10 In every dark hour of our...

...fainting: see of weakness, of fatigue: see of exhaustion. of fear (itself) or of being afraid: phobophobia. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is phobophobia. — From a discarded draft of FDR's 1933 inaugural address of feathers: pteronophobia...

...must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. " Wm. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar "5 o, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing n>e need to fear is fear itself. " Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933) DEFINING MOMENTS...

...broadcast by radio: TTiis great Nation will endure as it feas endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ...I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis —...