“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it alone.”

“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.”

“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

“They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.”