论四大自由 The Four Freedom 富兰克林 罗斯福.docVIP

The Four Freedoms 论四大自由 富兰克林．罗斯福 I address you, the Members of the Seventy-Seventh Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union. I use the word unprecedented, because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened from without as it is today... It is true that prior to 1914 the United States often had been disturbed by events in other Continents. We had even engaged in two wars with European nations and in a number of undeclared wars in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific for the maintenance of American rights and for the princi