"Which US President coined the phrase ""the only thing we have to fear is fear itself""?"
"is a by Franklin D. Roosevelt, ""The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"", depicts the various superheroes of the Marvel Universe contending with the Serpent, an Asgardian fear deity who causes global panic on Earth, and who seeks to reclaim the throne of Asgard he contends was usurped by his brother, Odin, father to Thor, when the latter vanquished him ages ago. Within the comics, the characters refer to this conflict as The Serpent's War. Although it is a company-wide crossover, it emphasizes Captain America and Thor, as with past crossovers of the late 2000s. Critics exhibited"
"speech in which FDR declared that ""the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"", had numerous religious references, which was widely commented upon at the time. Although it did not use the term ""Judeo-Christian"", it has come to be seen by scholars as in tune with the emerging view of a Judeo-Christian tradition. Historian Mary Stuckey emphasizes ""Roosevelt's use of the shared values grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition"" as a way to unify the American nation, and justify his own role as its chief policymaker. In the speech, FDR attacked the bankers and promised a reform in an"
"the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."" In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt avowed, ""we have nothing to fear but fear itself."" And in 1961, John F. Kennedy declared, ""And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country."" On the eight occasions where the new president succeeded"
"reference to ""fear itself"" in one of its first lines:So, 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. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. Addressing himself to the causes of the economic crisis"
"important speeches for the president. For example, he wrote the majority of Roosevelt's first inaugural address, although he is not credited with penning the famous line, ""the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."" He was responsible for FDR's use of the term ""the Forgotten Man"" in earlier speeches. He claimed credit for inventing the term ""New Deal,"" though its precise provenance remains open to debate. Moley also wrote various pamphlets and articles on the teaching of government. Praising the new president's first moves in March 1933, he concluded that capitalism ""was saved in eight days."" In mid-1933"
"'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Just words! 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.' Just words – just speeches!"" Obama stated that he borrowed the lines after being recommend to do so by Patrick who had faced similar attacks that he was only offering talk but not action. On February 19, Clinton's losing streak to Obama stretched to ten in a row. Obama won the Wisconsin primary 58 percent to 41 percent, with a trend continuing of Clinton losing support in demographics that had previously been most favorable to her, such"
"New York City family and was educated at Groton, a private Massachusetts preparatory school, had a number of characteristic patterns. His speech is non-rhotic; one of Roosevelt's most frequently heard speeches has a falling diphthong in the word ""fear"", which distinguishes it from other forms of surviving non-rhotic speech in the United States. ""Linking ""r"""" appears in Roosevelt's delivery of the words ""The only thing we have to fear is fear itself""; this pronunciation of ""r"" is also famously recorded in his Pearl Harbor speech, for example, in the phrase ""naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"". After"
"to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand."""" The unabridged beginning of the speech is: """"... And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me—us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand."""" During a rest in the music at 4:35, John F. Kennedy's inaugural address is heard (""Ask not what your country can do for you ...""). The song ends with Franklin D. Roosevelt saying ""The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"","
"made himself the enemy of what many saw as corrupt labor leaders, particularly by his appointment of Assistant Attorney General Ralph E. Moody to prosecute many union people accused of arson and assault. He was often quoted for his rephrasing of President Roosevelt's famous pronouncement on fear, saying, ""We have nothing to fear from the future except our own foolishness and slothfulness."" His criticism of President Roosevelt, however, cost Martin a bitterly contested bid for the Democratic Party of Oregon's gubernatorial nomination in 1938. After losing the nomination, Martin retired from active politics to his Portland home. He died on"
"Freedom from fear Freedom from fear is listed as a fundamental human right according to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On January 6, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it one of the ""Four Freedoms"" at his State of the Union, which was afterwards therefore referred to as the ""Four Freedoms Speech."" In his speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated freedom from fear as follows: ""The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be"
"Bush Doctrine The Bush Doctrine refers to various related foreign policy principles of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. These principles include unilateralism and the use of preventative war. Charles Krauthammer first used the phrase in June 2001 to describe the Bush Administration's ""...unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol."" After the 9/11 attack, the phrase described the policy that the United States had the right to secure itself against countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 war in Afghanistan. The Bush Doctrine"
"nothing to fear from the US, but warns that America will not be the subject for insolent aggression. The President cites good relations with the world as being important, but relations among Americans as most important. All of the growth and success has come with problems the Founding Fathers could not have foreseen, but assures that these are problems that all great nations face. Roosevelt speaks about the complexity of modern life, and the advances of industry. He speaks about the difficulty of self-government, and warns that should America fail, it would shake all free nations to their foundations. Roosevelt"
"In 1999 historian David M. Kennedy published a book called """". Freedom from fear Freedom from fear is listed as a fundamental human right according to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On January 6, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it one of the ""Four Freedoms"" at his State of the Union, which was afterwards therefore referred to as the ""Four Freedoms Speech."" In his speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated freedom from fear as follows: ""The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point"
"catchy snippets of information had a significant negative impact on American political discourse. In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites—such as ""The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address—were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and ""simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate."" The increased use of sound bites in news media has been criticized, and has"
"1920 State of the Union Address The 1920 State of the Union Address was written by the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, on Tuesday, December 7, 1920. It was his last address to both houses of the 66th United States Congress. Warren Harding would become president on Friday, March 4, 1921. He said, ""By this faith, and by this faith alone, can the world be lifted out of its present confusion and despair. It was this faith which prevailed over the wicked force of Germany. You will remember that the beginning of the end of the war"
"issued by President Woodrow Wilson in his own speech to Congress in April 1917, when the United States entered World War I. Wilson laid out the strategic threat posed by Germany and stressed the idealistic goals behind America's participation in the war. During the 1930s, however, American public opinion turned strongly against such themes, and was wary of, if not actively hostile to, idealistic visions of remaking the world through a ""just war"". Roosevelt, therefore, chose to make an appeal aimed more at the gut level—in effect, an appeal to patriotism, rather than to idealism. Nonetheless, he took pains to"
"Infamy Speech The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the US Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as ""a date which will live in infamy"". The speech is also commonly referred to as the ""Pearl Harbor Speech"". Within an hour of the speech,"
"Quarantine Speech The Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago (on the occasion of the dedication of the bridge between north and south outer Lake Shore Drive), calling for an international ""quarantine"" against the ""epidemic of world lawlessness"" by aggressive nations as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time. The speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by non-interventionists and foes to intervene. No countries were directly mentioned in the speech, although it was interpreted as referring to the Empire of"
"writer Ted Sorensen. Kennedy had Sorensen study President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as well as other inaugural speeches. Kennedy began collecting thoughts and ideas for his inauguration speech in late November 1960. He took suggestions from various friends, aides and counselors, including suggestions from clergymen for biblical quotations. Kennedy then made several drafts using his own thoughts and some of those suggestions. Kennedy included in his speech several suggestions made by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and by the former Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II. Kennedy's line ""Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear"
"War terminology of the sort used by Roosevelt, such as using the term ""axis"" to refer to America's enemies (as in ""Axis of Evil""). Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar referenced the speech hours after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, saying, ""On March 11, 2004, it already occupies its place in the history of infamy."" Infamy Speech The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the US Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,"
"except John Quincy Adams had done. He was the first president to deliver his inaugural address from memory. In the address he hailed an era of peace and prosperity at home and urged a vigorous assertion of U.S. interests in its foreign relations, including the ""eminently important"" acquisition of new territories. ""The policy of my administration"", said the new president, ""will not be deterred by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion."" Avoiding the word ""slavery"", he emphasized his desire to put the ""important subject"" to rest and maintain a peaceful union. He alluded to his own personal tragedy, telling"
"self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference."" The United States' policy of non-intervention was maintained throughout most of the 19th century. The first significant foreign intervention by the US was the Spanish–American War, which ultimately resulted in the Philippine–American War from 1899–1902. Theodore Roosevelt's administration is credited with inciting the Panamanian Revolt against Colombia in order to secure construction rights for the Panama Canal (begun in 1904). The President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, after winning reelection with the slogan ""He kept us out of war,"" was able to navigate neutrality"
"Nixon Doctrine The Nixon Doctrine (also known as the Guam Doctrine) was put forth during a press conference in Guam on July 25, 1969 by US President Richard Nixon and later formalized in his speech on Vietnamization on November 3, 1969. According to Gregg Brazinsky, Nixon stated that ""the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends"", but would not ""undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world."" This doctrine meant that each ally nation was in charge of its own security in general, but the United States would act as a"
"Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best-known speeches in American history. Although not the day's primary speech, Lincoln's carefully crafted address came to be seen as one of the greatest and most influential statements of American national purpose. In just 271 words, beginning with"
"the only president. In 1861 the governments of Spain, France and Great Britain, after the Treaty of London, faced the Juarez government, which filed for bankruptcy. Liberals managed to convince Spain and England to leave the country peacefully, on the other hand the French sent troops by orders of Napoleon III, and had the aim of establishing a Catholic empire in Mexico to stop the advance of American Protestantism and its growing expansionism. Conservatives supported this policy and strategy that aligned with their interests to establish a monarchy. On 10 June 1863 the French army took the city of Mexico."
"Carter Doctrine The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf. It was a response to the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, and it was intended to deter the Soviet Union, the United States' Cold War adversary, from seeking hegemony in the Persian Gulf region. The following key sentence, which was written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser,"
"sub-regional lynchpin states."" Nixon Doctrine The Nixon Doctrine (also known as the Guam Doctrine) was put forth during a press conference in Guam on July 25, 1969 by US President Richard Nixon and later formalized in his speech on Vietnamization on November 3, 1969. According to Gregg Brazinsky, Nixon stated that ""the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends"", but would not ""undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world."" This doctrine meant that each ally nation was in charge of its own security in general, but the United States would"
"President Woodrow Wilson. Having announced his Fourteen Points on 8 January 1918, on 11 February 1918 Wilson stated: ""National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent. 'Self determination' is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action."" During World War II, the principle was included in the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter. It was recognized as an international legal"
"Hadrian's Wall was a symbol of this policy. The first American President, George Washington, enunciated a policy of peace through strength in his fifth annual message to Congress, the 1793 State of the Union Address. He said: In Federalist No. 24, Alexander Hamilton argued for peace through strength, stating that strong garrisons in the west and a navy in the east would protect the Union from the threat of Britain and Spain. ""Peace Through Strength"" (1952) is the title of a book about a defense plan by Bernard Baruch, a World War II adviser to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt,"
"Richard Nixon). This is an obvious anachronism for the sake of a laugh, as the Bernstein of our timeline was not born until 1944. James G. Blaine was the second and last Republican president of the United States. Elected over Democratic incumbent Samuel J. Tilden in 1880, he was also known as the only other president to start a war (over the CSA's purchase of the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, giving the Confederacy a Pacific port) and to lose the war as well. At the end of The Second Mexican War, Blaine started the U.S. tradition of Remembrance Day"
"in 1878, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. First known by the slogan ""he kept us out of the war"", Wilson was finally pressured into asking Congress to declare war on Germany who was attacking U.S. vessels at high sea. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was once an influential newspaper"
"and soul of this nation."" In a speech on the Syria crisis on September 10, 2013, Obama said: ""however, when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death, and thereby make our kids safer over the long run, I believe we should act... That is what makes America different. That is what makes us exceptional."" In a direct response the next day, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an op-ed in ""The New York Times"", articulating that ""It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation... We are all"
"Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) became the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953) upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as Vice President. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. Truman was elected as a U.S. Senator in 1934 and gained national prominence as chairman of the Truman Committee aimed at waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts. Soon after succeeding to the presidency he became the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. Truman’s"