Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 2005

This booklet was inspired by a four-part lecture series, America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power, held at Eckerd College during the 2004-2005 academic year.

The series was part of Eckerd's Presidential Events Series, the Carnegie Council, and the Col. Christian L. and Edna M. March International Relations Lecture Series. 

The catchphrase Four Freedoms refers to the four "essential human freedoms" outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union message of January 6, 1941: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear of armed aggression.

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The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6, 1941. In an address also known as the Four Freedoms speech, Roosevelt enumerated four points as fundamental freedoms humans "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

   1. Freedom of speech and expression
   2. Freedom of every person to worship God in his own way
   3. Freedom from want - individual economic security
   4. Freedom from fear - world disarmament to the point that wars of aggression are impossible.

His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional American Constitutional values protected by the First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy that have come to be central tenets of modern American liberalism. (From Wikepedia)

Useful Links:

• Full text and audio of the Four Freedoms speech. An excerpt of the Four Freedoms section is also available.
• Full text of the Four Freedoms speech.
• Four Freedoms Democratic Club
• Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms Paintings
• Complete text of Second Inaugural Address by President Bush on January 20, 2005

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