Pike: Roosevelt was an enigma, detached, enigmatic and ruthless. His best remembered single statement, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,. Is patently absurd but he relished being hard to figure out. He liked secrets, and had a few. This impenetrability of roosevelt's though, has kind of worked against him in terms of his place in history. And oftentimes it gets wrapped up with people's politics, ideologies, world views and even conspiracy theories. But none the less, runs the gamut.