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# FDR's Four Freedoms

> Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union address articulating four essential human freedoms, January 6, 1941.

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  Delivered as the 1941 State of the Union, eleven months before the United States entered World War II. Roosevelt defined four freedoms that he argued should be secured for people "everywhere in the world."
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## The Four Freedoms

> "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
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> The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
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> The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
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> 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.
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> 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."

## Significance

The Four Freedoms framed America's purpose in the coming war and influenced the founding ideals of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The speech inspired Norman Rockwell's famous series of paintings.

## Source

See the full text via the [Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library](https://www.fdrlibrary.org/four-freedoms). Excerpts above are presented for reference.