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Four Freedoms In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in the world—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. These were substantially incorporated (Aug., 1941) in the Atlantic Charter .

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Four Freedoms freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, as presented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address to Congress on January 6, 1941, during World War II.

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