Freedom from Fear Quotes

“No less dispiriting to FDR than the actual defeat on the World Court treaty was the manner of its accomplishment. As Coughlin moved to consolidate and wield his political influence, he exhibited a wicked genius for unsealing some of the dankest chambers of the national soul. He played guilefully on his followers' worst instincts: their suspicious provincialism, their unworldly ignorance, their yearning for simple explanations and extravagant remedies for their undeniable problems, their readiness to believe in conspiracies, their sulky resentments, and their all too human capacity for hatred. The National Union for Social Justice remained an inchoate entity in early 1935, and Coughlin's sustainable political strength was still a matter of conjecture. But if the Radio Priest could succeed in shepherding his followers into an alliance with some of the other dissident protest movements”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“. and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Brandeis thought him "the biggest figure”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The backdrop of their bright lights, visible up to ten miles from shore, created a neon shooting gallery in which the U-boats nightly lay in wait on the seaward side of the shipping lanes and picked off their sharply silhouetted victims at will. A single U-boat prowling off New York harbor in January sank eight ships, including three tankers, in just twelve hours. On February 28 a German”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The appointments of Knox and Stimson bespoke Roosevelts high-minded intention to seek bipartisan consensus in a time of grave national crisis. "Not since that titanic conservative”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“They agreed instead with Ambassador Kennedy that "[t]he actual invasion and overrunning of England by German military forces" appeared to be "within the range of possibility." Consequently”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Roosevelt could not indefinitely continue stuffing his undefended hunches down the throats of his cabinet secretaries and his senior military and naval commanders. On June 13”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“As for Kennedy”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Not the least of the Englishmens reasons was their desire to offset what they knew were Ambassador Kennedys increasingly dark assessments of Britains prospects. Kennedy”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“From London”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Yet for all his doting upon the navy”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The Western powers proved willing to sacrifice the Sudetenland on the altar of appeasement. The Czech crisis”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“HAVING SHOWN THEMSELVES incapable of finding a solution to the refugee crisis”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The country had effectively barred its doors to further mass immigration in 1924. It was in no mood now”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Why did the potential refugee flood remain such a trickle? The explanation lay partly in the intersection of Nazi policy with those "laws of the country" about which Roosevelt reminded Lehman. Nazi regulations severely restricted the sum of money that a departing Jew could take out of Germany. As early as 1934 the amount had been reduced to the equivalent of four dollars”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The "Quarantine Speech" seemed to throw down the gauntlet to the isolationists and to herald a presidential crusade to educate the American public about the necessity for international engagement.”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“When Neville Chamberlain”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“These were "hair-trigger times," Roosevelt wrote in March”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“AFTER THE SENATE had refused Roosevelts request for American participation in the World Court in January 1935”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Emboldened”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“As for allies”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“The Italians and the Japanese alike felt cheated at Versailles out of their victors just desserts and eventually fell under rulers dedicated to redressing that grievance”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“For all its agony of carnage and destruction”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“HUMANKIND”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Not with a bang”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Yet Roosevelt himself stood before the world in 1938 as a badly weakened leader”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“History proves," Roosevelt concluded”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“WHAT WAS THE NEW DEAL? Marriner Eccles had wondered. Whatever it was”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“Various explanations have been offered for Roosevelts belated choice in 1938 of these weak and contradictory instruments of economic policy. In part”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

“In this view”
― David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945