But such fear as they instill today is not a natural fear, a normal fear; it is a synthetic, manufactured, poisonous fear that is being spread subtly, expensively and cleverly by the same people who cried in those other days, "Save us, save us, lest we perish.
Roosevelt describes a manufactured fear being spread by those who previously sought to manipulate public sentiment.
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We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
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