When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“We stated before that men’s ideas change slowly and that a nation’s ideas change even more slowly. It takes shocks—hard shocks—to change a nation’s psychology.”
“Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It’s the system that functions in the pinches that survives.”