Video: 'Four Freedoms Speech'

(Monday, January 6, 1941, 2:00 p.m. EST; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech today before a joint session of the new 77th Congress, proposing four fundamental freedoms that all the people of the world ought to enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Video: 'State Of The Union The Four Freedoms (January 6th 1941)'

In his annual State of the Union message, Roosevelt asserted that this “moral order” for peace was directly opposed to the “new order of tyranny.”