The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," said Franklin D Roosevelt at his inauguration as the 32nd President of the United States in 1933.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022
As President Roosevelt famously said in his first inaugural address in the depths of the Great Depression, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2020
He used a yellow legal pad to draft his first inaugural address, which rang with one of the most effective buck-up lines in history: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
From US News ● Apr. 9, 2015
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made early in the Great Depression of the 1930s: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2011
I have said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
From State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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