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 world-wide 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 so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the
crash of a bomb."-Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
Why did Roosevelt deliver the "Four Freedoms' as part of the State of the Union address?
A)
to remind Americans that "freedom isn't free
B)
to get the United States ready to fight in World War II
to people know why they had reasons to fear for their freedom
D
to provide a reason for why the United States should abandon the
isolationist policies that emerged out of World War I