Tuesday, July 27, 2010

1933

From FDR:

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

1 comment:

Joe Jubinville said...

Good ole FDR. No wonder the wingnuts dislike him... letting the cat out of the bag like that.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H.L Menken (1880-1956)