A
quote from
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
president of the
U.S. during
Great Depression of the
1930s. Many believe that his
New Deal program helped get the U.S. out of the depression; others give the
credit entirely to
WWII. Either way, the two
Roosevelts (
Teddy with his support for
antitrust regulation, and
FDR with the
New Deal) helped make the U.S. slightly more
socialist than it otherwise would have been. Nowhere near as much so as most of
Europe, though.
R.E.M., in the song `Hyena', twisted this into ``The only thing to fear is fearlessness''.