"FDR 1941 State of the Union Address"
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to 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 world-wide 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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 State of the Union Address, "The Four Freedoms"
Question:
Use the passage to answer the question.
How does this passage clarify President Roosevelt's position that neutrality is impossible in January of 1941?
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Responses
by creating a dichotomy between the "new order of tyranny" and the "moral order"
by creating a dichotomy between the "new order of tyranny" and the "moral order"
by presenting his vision of a "distant millennium"
by presenting his vision of a "distant millennium"
by questioning the effectiveness of foreign revolutions
by questioning the effectiveness of foreign revolutions
by outlining four essential freedoms that all people everywhere should enjoy
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