Roosevelt's Four Freedoms

6th January 1941: In his State of the Union Address the President sets out the moral position of the United States

President Franklin D. Roosevelt set out his Four Freedoms in his address to Congress on 6th January 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt recognised the need to support Britain and other countries in the war. At this time, he sought to persuade many Americans that it was in their interests to align themselves against Nazism and dictatorship. Earlier he had argued …