History From the Stamp's Point of View: Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms

This beauty was issued  on January 30, 1946. It's the last in a series of Roosevelt memorial stamps. On the right side of the stamp is a globe showing the United States and the four freedoms articulated by Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union Address.

 An excerpt:

[82] In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

[83] The first is freedom of speech and expression–everywhere in the world.

[84] The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way–everywhere in the world.

[85] 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.

86] 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 against any neighbor–anywhere in the world.

The entire transcript can be read here.

 

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