“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”

"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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Franklin D Roosevelt

What is it that we are being protected from? We are told it is terror. Is it not fear itself that we are being protected from? It is blank and dark and void. It's a canvas by which all manner of reasons can be justified. It is that which we will in time, and with complete certainty surrender inch by inch our very freedoms which are the bane of fear itself.

Fear consumes, fear imprisons, fear defeats.