John Glenn Quotes
Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
Glenn, John, and Nick Taylor. John Glenn: A Memoir. Bantam Books, 1999.
The President later addressed this in his "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speech – See {636844}.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt {636844} and Henry David Thoreau {35833} for similar later statements.
This is the principle that the terrorist lives by—to inculcate fear of danger in as many people as possible,
See Thoreau {623573} and FDR {636844} for similar sentiments.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.
