Remember Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Words!

by Two Chums on December 29, 2022

Looking tanned and fit, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives at the Capitol for his speech to the assembled members of Congress. He told a cheering audience to assume responsibility for underwriting future peace through world collaboration in the same non-partisan spirit that America wages war – or to “bear the responsibility for another world conflict.”

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4, 1933, the country was in the midst of the Great Depression.

In his inaugural address, FDR projected optimism, saying, “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.”

What profound words these are and most valuable to us, even today, as we face our fears. Certainly words we should take into 2023!

Remember!