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• We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
  We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction....
• The only thing we have to fear is no more beer.
• Aibohphobia: an unreasoning fear of palindromes.
• With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, .
  ..to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations....
• The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us.
  -- Franklin D Roosevelt, campaign address, Detroit, Michigan, October 2, 1932...
• We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself.
• No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.
  Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency....
• There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...