The Four Freedoms<span> were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D.</span>Roosevelt<span> on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the </span>Four Freedoms speech<span>(technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed </span>four<span> fundamental </span>freedoms<span> that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy </span> The speech was intended to rally the American people against the Axis threat and to shift favor in support of assisting British and Allied troops.
It is known as the "Four Freedoms Speech" to the State of the Union address by President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. It receives this name because in it Roosevelt synthesized in "four essential human liberties" the United States goals for the postwar world: freedom of speech, freedom of religion , freedom from want and freedom from fear.
The speech played an important role in propaganda during World War II; it was pronounced eight months before the United States' participation in the war. Roosevelt's wife Eleanor Roosevelt remained, after the death of her husband in 1945, an active advocate of the inclusion of the four freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations.
