Fear Not? I remember the first time I heard Franklin Roosevelt’s quote, borrowed from Montaigne, that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Of course he was talking about the kind of fear that threatened to paralyze the nation during the Great Depression. Born too late to experience that catastrophe, I responded to his words like other great fibs I had heard as a child, such as the one about sticks and stones breaking your bones but words never hurting you. How could anyone believe it?
Well said, Ann - thank you!