Quote:
Originally Posted by Billi
It's exactly 70 years ago:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
- 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.
- Full speech you can find here: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...urfreedoms.htm |
Wonderful goals, though by no means easy ones, and I hope one day the world achieves them. Thanks for that quote.