In a message to
Congress, delivered on January 6,
1941,
FDR defined the Four
Essential Human
Freedom's as the following.
" 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 world wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough manner 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 dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
"To that 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 quick -lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working togethor in a friendly, civilized society."
"This nation has placed its destiny in the hands, heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and in it faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom meansthe supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes out to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is in our unity of purpose."
"To that high concept there can be no end save victory."