Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
599
AUTHOR:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (18821945)
QUOTATION:
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfnameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
ATTRIBUTION:
President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, inaugural address, March 4, 1933.The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933, p. 11 (1938).