The Four Freedoms - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Excerpt from United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "State of the Union Address" to the 77th Congress, January 6, 1941.

Pardon the quality, I slapped this together after finding that it hadn't already been done. The fact that I've done so shouldn't be construed as an endorsement of anything in particular -- I simply thought it ought to be on YouTube.

Text, audio and image taken from:

http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms

Transcript:

"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.

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."

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[fiveinslide6]

@goatface1000 >>How many more Americans must die yearly of cancer before we'll be as "decent" as you Brits?<<

Source: Dr. Michel Coleman et al, "Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study". Lancet Oncology July 17th, 2008. Nearly 100 doctors involved; all documented. Your countrymen are being slaughtered at the alter of your Leftist political religion. You should be ashamed of yourself!

[fiveinslide6]

@goatface1000 >>Britain...decent state healthcare<<

Let's see how that assertion holds up to the facts...

5-year survival rates:

Breast Cancer: UK 69.7% US 84%

Colon-Rectal Cancer in men:UK 42.3% US 69.3%

Prostate UK 51.1% US 92.3%

You call that "decent". I call it the Left's greatest improvement on the guillotine for killing the most people in the most politically-palatable way. How many more Americans must die yearly of cancer before we'll be as "decent" as you?

[JugheadObama]

And then a plane crashed into a building and there went that.

[fiveinslide6]

@rash1041 >>charter schools<<

...demonstrate how competition both between schools and students results in scarce educational resources being used efficiently/productively; i.e. not wasted. There's in fact too much education in America, exhibited by the number of "party schools". When you artificially lower the price for something, more is consumed than needed. Charter schools enable good students with good parents to escape the entanglement of brats who don't belong in the same classroom.

[fiveinslide6]

@rash1041 Socialists routinely go through cancer records and bitch about how people who spend their money on fun stuff like big tvs cars and drinks at bars instead of health insurance or who just don't like working ARE BEING DIAGNOSED at later stages of cancer than those with their priorities straight. Everybody's diagnosed and included in cancer survival stats. There's no pandemic in America of low-income people's bodies being scraped off the floor after dying of undiagnosed cancer.

[fiveinslide6]

@rash1041 Wrong. Everyone has access to a doctor in America; even our illegal immigrants. The Coleman study doesn't only count people treated. It counts everyone diagnosed. Everyone is diagnosed eventually, whether at an early or very late stage; through screening or an emergency visit. American Emergency Rooms are flooded with illegal immigrants who don't pay and American doctors bending over backwards to diagnose even their colds and flus. Every cancer victim is included in the survival rates.

[rash1041]

@rash1041 It's much like when a charter school posts a graduation rate of around 80% and the compares it to a public school rate that might be in the 60% range and tries to use that difference to prove that charter schooling is more effective...they leave out the part about a charter being able to deny enrollment and a public school enrolling everyone in the area. It's easy to have better numbers when you can control the sample. It doesn't mean you're practicing good science.

[rash1041]

@fiveinslide6 I really don't want to involve myself in yet one sided argument...but if you're going to compare survival rates between a country in which everyone has access to a doctor and thus a diagnosis, and country in which only the top (aka more healthy) 84% of its residents have access to a doctor you can't position your argument as if the two sides are equal participants.

[epicwinface]

anyone else think we need another man like Roosevelt to lead our great nation?

[goatface1000]

@fiveinslide6 Your figures a crap like your political philosophy. Like all right wingers you lie and deceive.

[goatface1000]

@fiveinslide6 Hitler was helped into power by wealthy industrialists and the establishment. He hated socialism. The word socialist in the full name of the nazi party was merely a left over from when the party was first formed. There was little if any public ownership in nazi Germany. You guys hate socialism so much that you equate any left leanings witrh Hitler. I am a supporter and member of the British Labour party. Does that make me a nazi?

[goatface1000]

@fiveinslide6 WASP Americans will never be as decent as us British. All worthwhile American culture comes either from Jewish or Black sources the rest of you are a bunch of useless tossers. Your beer is vile you don't play cricket and you are terrible soldiers. I am the GREAT GOAT and I am going to beat you with a frozen salami. Your wurst nightmare