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Four Freedoms
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Four Freedoms. In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in the world—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These were substantially incorporated (Aug., 1941) in the Atlantic Charter Atlantic Charter , joint program of peace aims, enunciated by Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States on Aug. 14, 1941.
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Four Freedoms

Essential social and political objectives described by Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in his State of the Union message in January 1941: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear of physical aggression. He called for the last freedom to be achieved through a “worldwide reduction in armaments.” In August 1941 he and Winston Churchill included the four freedoms in the Atlantic Charter.



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Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, Rockwell illustrated four vital American ideas for The Saturday Evening Post: freedom from want and fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.
Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, Rockwell illustrated four vital American ideas for The Saturday Evening Post: freedom from want and fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.
 
 
 
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