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FDR articulated the moral purpose of WWII in his 'Four Freedoms' speech: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. He believed that freedom was not just a legal right, but a human condition that required economic security and international stability. He teaches that true freedom requires the courage to fight tyranny anywhere in the world.
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms."
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men."
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
"I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few."
"The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are worthy of it."
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