FOUR FREEDOMS

 

Four Freedoms, a formulation of American post-World War

II hopes made by President Roosevelt in his State of the

Union address of Jan. 6, 1941. Speaking eleven months

before the United States officially entered the war,

Roosevelt set forth the Four Freedoms in these words:

"The first is freedom of speech and

expression--everywhere in the world. The second is

freedom of every person to worship God in his own

way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from

want--which, translated into world terms, means economic

understandings which will secure to every nation a

healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere

in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which,

translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction

of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough

fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit

an act of physical aggression against any

neighbor--anywhere in the world."

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