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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes
The Chinese have a story based on three or four thousand years of civilization. Two Chinese coolies were arguing heatedly in the midst of a crowd. A stranger expresses surprise that no blows were being struck. His Chinese friend replied, “The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind.
In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
