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" 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. "
An Excess of Phobias and Manias - Page 144
by John G. Robertson - 2003 - 202 pages
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Permanent Appropriations: Hearing[s] Before the Subcommittee of House ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1934 - 1002 pages
...decade and a half. President Roosevelt in his inaugural address made the following statement: "It is the authority that was efforts to convert retreat into advance." Any change inculcating fear and uncertainty would be particularly...
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Permanent Appropriations: Hearing[s] Before the Subcommittee of House ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1934 - 1010 pages
...decade and a half. President Roosevelt in his inaugural address made the following statement: "It is my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear...nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes efforts to convert retreat into advance." Under a policy of annual appropriations, State and local...
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There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life

Charles Harrington Elster - 2005 - 276 pages
...fainting: see of weakness, of fatigue: see of exhaustion. of fear (itself) or of being afraid: phobophobia. Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is phobophobia. — From a discarded draft of FDR's 1933 inaugural address of feathers: pteronophobia...
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Weathering the Storms: Fear Fades as Your Faith Deepens

Denise George - 2005 - 194 pages
...he told the frightened American people: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Some women fear fear. They go out of their way to avoid all situations, people, and places that threaten...
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124 Years Before The Navy Mast - The Patten Family

Clarence Floyd Patten, Dale E. Sporleder - 2006 - 426 pages
...Annabelle Sporleder Dale Ernest Sporleder Duane Walter Sporleder 106 JOINING THE NAVY "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we...efforts to convert retreat into advance." Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Speech, 1933 The farm depression was becoming a national depression. Farm mortgage...
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A Thinking Reed

Barry Jones - 2006 - 606 pages
...of my hero Franklin D. Roosevelt in his First Inaugural Address on 4 March 1933: 'So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.' We must reject fear as a driving force for public policy, commit ourselves to rationality and courage,...
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Facing Fascism: The Threat to American Democracy in the 21St Century

Jerry Sorlucco - 2006 - 461 pages
...our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." "In such a spirit on my part and yours, we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only...
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Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves

Brian Michael Jenkins - 2006 - 236 pages
...heed the admonition that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered in his 1933 inaugural address: "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." It should not be fear that propels us, but confidence that we will ultimately prevail. We have never...
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The Triumph of Hope

Amelia May Kingston - 2006 - 386 pages
...wisely said, "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly ... let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance". And we will be retreating, make no mistake, if we allow the combined power of authoritarian ignorance,...
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s

Susan Currell, Christina Cogdell - 2006 - 417 pages
...is: "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...paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." 15. The influence of eugenics on the social sciences was discussed by Robert Proctor in "Eugenics among...
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