| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 599 |
| AUTHOR: | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, inaugural address, March 4, 1933.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933, p. 11 (1938). |
| SUBJECTS: | Fear |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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