This quote comes from the now famous Four Freedoms speech, delivered by Roosevelt as the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941. The international context was very negative. Hitler and his Axis allies were winning in Europe. Britain was greatly menaced and the Japanese were gearing up for all-out war in the Pacific and in Asia.
Roosevelt, aware that scientific progress had eliminated the physical advantage of the USA being separated from Europe and Asia by such vast expanses of water had been arming and funding the British for years and had also increased military spending and the Navy in order to keep Japan at bay.
He knew that once Hitler had conquered Europe and Japan had conquered the East, all the populations and resources of these vast reasons would be used to directly attack the USA, which would eventually find itself in numeric inferiority so in order to prevent such a dark future he chose to send weapons, supplies and money to the British.
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False. It was Ferdinand Magellan a Portuguese explorer.
One reason some people support raising the eligibility age for receiving Social Security benefits is that 2. people are living longer today. Social Security is intended to support individuals as they enter the end of their lives meaning they are no longer physically able to provide for themselves. However, with advances in medicine, today's individuals live healthier and longer lives thereby allowing them to work to an older age. Therefore, some believe Social Security should only be accessed once people are unable to work which would be later in life than it was when the bill was passed in the 1930s.
