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This article is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's themes. For other uses, see Four Freedoms (disambiguation).
The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered to the United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In an address also known as the Four Freedoms speech, FDR proposed four points as fundamental freedoms humans “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of religion
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional American Constitutional values protected by the First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy that have come to be central tenets of modern American liberalism. They also anticipated what would become known decades later as the “human security” paradigm in social science and economic development.
If the enslaved muslims in “muslim lands” had freedom of religion, we wouldn’t be facing the threat of international terrorism that we do today (and others have faced for the past 1000 years).
Our nation used to put a value for national security on our domestic production/harvest/resources.
We now ship our lumber overseas and prohibit use of domestic coal and oil.
We could have freedom from want. But Obama says we have too much already and must “pay” to “right” injustices in this world.
Can you point to someplace that shows FDR specifically establishing socialist “womb to the tomb” nannystate as a means of seeing that we have “freedom from want”? That would go for radio ownership, employment, higher education, and the whole lot, if we are to take that meaning. Wikipedia itself doesn’t carry much weight.
There was a discussion about this in The Rare Coin episode of Amos n Andy, when Kingfish and Andy were in court:
Kingfish: They can't do a thing to us, not a thing!
Andy (looking at the police on each side): They can't huh? Well, we ain't 'zactly sloshin' around in the Four Freedoms!