Question

What were the main points of Roosevelt's speech? Specifically, what are the four freedoms mentioned in the title and why are they important?
TITLE: excerpts from presiden Roosevelt's four freedom speech

Answer 1

Answer:

Roosevelt's hope was to provide a rationale for why the United States should abandon the isolationist policies that emerged from World War I.

In that context, he summarized the values of democracy behind the bipartisan consensus on international involvement that existed at the time.

*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.