If your biggest fear is simply being afraid of everything, it freezes you into immobility. Roosevelt knew that was the last thing the public needed at that time, so he clarified that fear itself was the biggest enemy, if we gave into it - if we didn't, we could work our way out of all the other problems.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Only Thing We Have To Fear, Is Fear Itself!
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this famous quote during his inaugural address in 1933. He used it to reassure Americans during the Great Depression and to emphasize the importance of overcoming fear in times of crisis.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, during his first inaugural address on March 4,1933, was speaking of the Great Depression, and its effect on the morale of the USA, when he said:"...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address does not have a specific name, yet a specific famous reference to the speech contained, "the only thing we have to fear... is fear itself."
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"[...] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt