If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
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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 gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
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Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business 8230 has been a menace to 8230 American society.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women
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