From the American Speaker Starter Material:

There is no record of President Franklin Roosevelt ever suffering from stage fright. So nothing could have been further from the great man’s mind when he delivered his famous first Inaugural Address on March 4, 1933. Yet there is a passage in it that describes stage fright better than any psychological manual or actor’s handbook: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasonable, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

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