The Visionary Words of a Former President in a Time of Crisis

From Common Sense in a Time of Crisis:

"This Nation asks for action, and action now ... We must act and act quickly ...

"Our task now is not discovery or exploitation of natural resources, or necessarily producing more goods ... [Our task] is ... distributing wealth and products more equitably, of adapting existing economic organization to the service of the people.

"This election is not a mere shift from the ins to the outs. It means deciding the direction our Nation will take over a century to come."

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts....

(All the above are the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as cited in Arthur M. Schlesinger's The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933)