Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms

The major point of contrast between the Rockwell and Roosevelt visions of the Four Freedoms was the distance between a domestic and an international focus for U.S. war aims. While the text of Roosevelt's original Four Freedoms speech percussively highlighted the worldwide relevance of each “freedom,” repeating the phrase “everywhere in the world” after each item to emphasize their universal application, Rockwell's Four Freedoms were an almost exclusively domestic affair, in both senses of that term. As the runaway success of Rockwell's vision soon suggested, it proved dramatically easier to sell “national goals which justify asking citizens to ...