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The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State Of The Union Address he delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6 , 1941 . In an address also known as the '''Four Freedoms speech''', Roosevelt enumerated four points as fundamental freedoms humans "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

# Freedom Of Speech and expression
# Freedom Of Every Person To Worship In His Own Way
# Freedom from hunger
# Freedom from fear

His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional American Constitutional values protected by the First Amendment , and endorsed a Right to economic security and an Internationalist view of foreign policy that have come to be central tenets of Modern American Liberalism .


THE DECLARATIONS

The speech delivered by President Roosevelt incorporated the following section: