the four freedoms
franklin delano roosevelt
in the future days which we seek to make secure we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms
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
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 that kind of world is the very antithesis of the socalled new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb
to that new order we oppose the greater conception the moral order a good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear
since the beginning of our american history we have been engaged in change in a perpetual peaceful revolution a revolution which goes on steadily quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch the world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries working together in a friendly civilized society
this nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women and its faith in freedom under the guidance of god freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them our strength is our unity of purpose
to that high concept there can be no end save victory
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