The Four Freedoms
Written by: Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the future days, which we seek to make secure,
we look forward to a world founded upon four essential
human freedoms...
...freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world.
...freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.
...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.
...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.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world
attainable in our own time and generation...."
© Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered January 6th, 1941
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