Franklin D. Roosevelt "Four Freedoms" Speech - January 6, 1941

January 6, 1941: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a joint session of Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech.

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[Derp McHerpton]

1:30 auto captions: "and in fetuses"

[HaisenbergBG]

Bill Jahnel made me watch this......what kind of bias is he demonstrating?

[grandoldpyro]

This was given during WW2. FDR was not stupid, he knew that the U.S. would be involved at some point.

[ccfromnj]

I am not the sharpest tool in the took box, But... President Roosevelt starts off talking about making more '...munitions and war supplies of many kinds...' (2:00) and ends with the '...World wide reduction in armament...' (6:25). And I am 'Far Left' and a fan of FDR. !

[fiveinslide6]

The founders were in agreement in keeping the federal government out of our lives; they only disagreed about how best to do it. The reason some didn't want a bill of rights was only that they feared judges would interpret it to mean that we only had those rights mentioned in those amendments so the government was free to attack us in every other way. That's the opposite of what both camps wanted. They both wanted a strict leash on government.

[fiveinslide6]

Honestly, George Washington wasn't the great philosopher of our founders but he had tremendous personal integrity and fully understood what our Constitution was about when he issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation. He was flaunting the fact that the 1st Amendment has an actually subject, verb and object limiting its scope. Today, too many people pretend judges get to invent new, more expansive subjects, verbs and objects for any law they fee like, whenever they want. It's tyranny.

[fiveinslide6]

A ban on exports starts a trade war. As for bulbs, don't be silly. Any lead in an incandescent is solidly attached to the base--no health hazard--and fluorescents have a lot of mercury in dust form; not lead. You need to call hazmat to clean that up or you will eventually breathe it all in. Once you breathe it in, it stays in you.

[Ryan Mitchell]

people made the argument that it was overbearing, allowed to much control by the wealthy as well as many other arguments. There were many different views as to what should be put in the constitution. GW did not like the idea of entering into foreign wars yet many people of his time did and still many people today do. You can see his opinion about this in his Farewell Address as well as his Proclamation of Neutrality.

[Ryan Mitchell]

The anti federalist founding fathers did. The federalist founding fathers had no original intention of putting in a bill of rights. You can read this in many history text books. You seem to believe that the founding fathers all had the same consenting opinion. The day of the ratification of the constitution was a bunch of politicians holding hands and jumping around in fields of flowers, clouds and rainbows. This is not the case. The constitution took 4 years to finally be accepted and many

[Ryan Mitchell]

I never said i defended it. I only point at the other side of the argument. You can not oppose policy by pointing at the negative either as you often do.