Given today‘s date, it would feel wrong not to have quotes from these fellows:
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.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
—Sir Winston ChurchillA single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
—Joseph Stalin
