Questions
This section will have famous quotes made by various Presidents. If you wish, you can identify the President, the date, the place and the meaning of the quote before referring to the separate answer section. Or if you prefer, you may proceed straight to the answer.
1. Which President said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."? When did he say it, and what were the circumstances in the nation that led him to say it? How could these words guide us today? How might they uplift us?
Monday, November 8, 2010
Presidential Quotes---Wisdom and Follies of the Ages
Answers
This section will consist of various famous and not so famous quotes made by U. S. Presidents. After you read the quote, you can try to identify the President who said it and when, where and why he said it. The question appears in the preceding section.
1. This famous quote was made by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his first inauguration on March 4, 1933, after he was elected for a first term in 1932. The United States was still struggling to overcome the Great Depression, more than three years after the stock market crash of 1929. There could also have been a foreshadowing of the coming World War II in this statement, but if so, it was probably serendipitous in an unlucky sort of way. Although the President did not mean to say this, someone else might have contended, "Cheer up...things could get worse...and sure enough they did!" We can only hope that history does not repeat itself. This is a longer quote from his address:
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...
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources...
This section will consist of various famous and not so famous quotes made by U. S. Presidents. After you read the quote, you can try to identify the President who said it and when, where and why he said it. The question appears in the preceding section.
1. This famous quote was made by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his first inauguration on March 4, 1933, after he was elected for a first term in 1932. The United States was still struggling to overcome the Great Depression, more than three years after the stock market crash of 1929. There could also have been a foreshadowing of the coming World War II in this statement, but if so, it was probably serendipitous in an unlucky sort of way. Although the President did not mean to say this, someone else might have contended, "Cheer up...things could get worse...and sure enough they did!" We can only hope that history does not repeat itself. This is a longer quote from his address:
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...
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources...
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