James Holland

The third is freedom from want, which translated into world terms means economic understandings, which will secure 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 worldwide 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.

To that new order, we oppose the greater conception, the moral order.

A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change and a perpetual, peaceful revolution.

A revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions, without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch.

The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries working together in a friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights

everywhere our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them our strength is our unity of purpose to that high concept there can be no end save victory well jim i mean

He made that in early January 1941.

And I think it's one of the most important speeches that he ever made in his long political career.

And it is the point at which he is adding a moral component to his pragmatism.

of his vision, not only for how they're going to win the Second World War, but also the peace that follows and the world order that is going to follow in the democratic West.

Yeah.

So if you think, you know, we talked in the early episodes about Roosevelt taking over from Herbert Hoover in the election in 1932, and he's inaugurated in March 1933, just six weeks after Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.

And, you know, he gets in on an isolationist ticket.