You’ll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn’t need to worry you. You won’t always be right, but you mustn’t suffer from being wrong. That’s what kills people like us.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. This advice given to Raymond Moley prompted Moley to muse that FDR was like a fairytale prince who did not know how to shudder. William E. Leutchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940, p. 168, Harper & Row (1963).
Many people who observed the President in the early days of the New Deal marvelled at his serenity and his ability to confront national problems with an ease which made them believe that with him at the helm, no problem was insoluble.
