The World is Good (even when People are Not.)

Let me confess something to you, now.

As you have been so — 

honest -- with me.

 

(thinks) 

No-one -- ever mentions the fact 

that I can't use my legs.

It's never referred to. 

Not by ANYONE.

 

And I used to •think• it was because 

they were embarrassed about it. 

But •now• I think its because 

It's not What They Want to See. 

Of course, You and I — 

We think They see 

Everything That We Are.

All Our Flaws.

Or Transgressions. Or Failures.

But that is NOT 

What They are Looking to Find, 

when They look to Us. 

And God Help Us if that ever changes. 

Do you imagine the disappointment... 

when They find out 

What We Really Are. 

KING GEORGE VI :

Thank You.

....They didn't want Me as Their King.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANOR ROOSEVELT :

....I didn’t know they voted for that in England. 

This Great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. 

 

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.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 

together with 

Abraham Lincoln 

and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 

was perhaps Our Greatest President. 

When he assumed office, 

13 million people in this country were unemployed. 

They'd lost Hope, 

and President Roosevelt 

said to these people, 

"The only thing we have to fear is Fear Itself." 

 

What did he mean by that? 

James? 

 

I think he was trying to say

"There's nothing really wrong."  You know? 

So "Don't Get So Emotional."

 

Maybe. 

Maybe he was saying that 

The World is Good and 

We Need Only Work Together 

to overcome Our Problems.

I am certain that My Fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. 

 

This is preeminently the time to Speak The Truth, The Whole Truth, Frankly and Boldly. 

 

Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. 

 

This Great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. 

 

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.