What are the "Four Freedoms" that Roosevelt spoke about...?

Does anyone recall?? I seem to recall they were "Freedom Froms"?

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Text/wwt0047

Cheers.

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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 peace time 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.

Is trying to do away with.

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 wold.
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.

Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear

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.

(I was 13 at that time, and us kids followed the news CLOSELY). But since Google is now back on line, I took the easy way out. Here they are: "freedoms to which all people are entitled: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear." I found them on a Norman Rockwell web page over here: http://www.nrm.org/exhibits/current/four-freedoms.html

Norman Rockwell is occasionally sneered at by 'elitists', but his paintings still go directly to my heart now, as they did then. (And I regard myself as a Chomsky socialist.) Whenever I compare the honesty and sincerity of Norman Rockwell's depiction of "patriotism" to the present hypocritical blather, my blood BOILS!

pnorman

I have the original WW2 posters of the Four Freedoms, stuffed up in the attic somewhere...

Beats the hell out of someone sitting their ass down in a bucket of paint and then plopping it on the canvas, giving the whole foolish mess some mystical title, and trying to pass that crap off as art!!!!!

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conservatives seem to rattle off their principlers while liberals are usually tongue-tied about what it is that makes them a liberal. so remmeber the four freedoms of FDR