Saturday, April 18, 2009

Hear and Heed

Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration speech on March 4, 1933 which occurred in the middle of the bank panic, hence the backdrop for his famous words:

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. 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 paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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