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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
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