"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let m 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." - March 4. 1933 These words were spoken in order to calm people's fears during the Great Depression the Civil War World War I O World War II.​