Four Freedoms

From a speech by Franklin Roosevelt:

"That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. To that new order we oppose the greater conception - the moral order A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear."

"Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society."

-- FDR, 1941. For more of this wonderful stuff, try http://www.csamerican.com/Doc.asp?doc=FourFreedoms . 60 years later, have we entirely forgotten FDR's vision?

Not at all. We have an even more inspiring vision now, GeorgeBushsFourFreedoms?.

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

We've got a kindler, gentler machine gun hand. -- NeilYoung?, Rockin' in the Free World


Original art by Norman Rockwell in 1943

Don't know what happened to those links, but this is a combined graphic -- and a bonus explaining them.

Anyone know where you can get this on a T-shirt?

see http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/four_freedoms.html


What about Richard Stallman's four freedoms? That would be more on topic.


See also: FreedomOfInformation

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