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State of the Union goals

This article is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's themes. For other uses, see Four Freedoms (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with For Freedoms.

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S.

PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

1. Freedom of speech and expression
2. Freedom of worship
3. Freedom from want
4. Freedom from fear

Roosevelt delivered his speech 11 months before the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which caused the United States to declare war on Japan on December 8, The State of the Union speech before Congress was largely about the national security of the United States and the threat to other democracies from world war.

In the speech, he made a break with the long-held tradition of United States non-intervention