During sixteen long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independe
nt nations, great and small. The assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms Speech: Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union," January 6, 1941Which phrase best states the theme of this passage from Roosevelts Four Freedoms speech?
A.America versus Germany
B.Good versus evil
C.Love versus hate
D.Past versus present
It is known as Four Freedoms Speech to the speech of the State of the Union addressed to the Congress by the president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. It receives this name because in the same Roosevelt summarized in "four essential human freedoms" US goals for the postwar world: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear.