○  franklin d. roosevelt: the four freedoms  ○

and that is why the future of all the american republics is today in serious danger.  that is why this annual message to the congress is unique in our history.  that is why every member of the executive branch of the government and every member of the congress face great responsibility—great accountability.

the need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoted primarily—almost exclusively—to meeting this foreign peril.  for all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergency.

just as our national policy in internal affairs has been based upon a decent respect for the rights and dignity of all our fellow men within our gates, so our national policy in foreign affairs has been based on a decent respect for the rights and the dignity of all nations, large and small.  and the justice of morality must and will win in the end.

our national policy is this:

first, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to all-inclusive national defense.

second, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to full support of all those resolute people everywhere who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere.  by this support we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevail, and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation

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