Most people can recall one line from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." It wasn't the best line in the speech. Toward the end ...

Roosevelt’s first inaugural (1933). All are well worth reading. Jefferson did an astonishing job in his first address explaining the importance of the peaceful transfer of power — and the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, came at the height of the Great Depression. With millions unemployed and the banking system on the verge of collapse, Roosevelt's ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously began his first inaugural address in 1933 with the words: “This is a day of national consecration and I know that on this day my fellow Americans expect that I ...