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Show 187 of lndepenaence" WQI the fimt to sey to all the world to hear i 'That aU men (u.. created eqwl, that .U ate endowed by their Creator with certain Inalienable rIghts, of life, liberty, and the PUquit of happiness.' The otlthor of that Declaration made no reservotlon separotinl free Gem from happineo nor ,.,Ieg_ing them to one section of the populQtlon os a_inst the other them to - Gentiles l.ut not to granting Jews. 'The -.uol fight. Gf man and the happlness of every Individual', sold Thomas Jefferson ·enG the "au,r freedoms' of President R:oosevelt CIre being fought for end won on a battiefielGi that eovers the earth. To insure the rights of aU people to eq\IGlity, to Qssure their right to work out th'.if own destini. freed fotever from the threat.f enslavement and domincttion DY 0 rrtClSter rae-i (I united peace mU$t follow. united vietory The friendshIp of the United States end the Soviet Union in war must be followed by a permanent unit, Q permonent alUcmce, in peace. In such en oUlcmee lies the only prQnty of lasti.ng peac., of equtlt rights of the individvol, the only gt;MItanty to the rights of nClHonJ.13 f.ocIoy il W.hi.ngton·s a',thdey •••• Stlrely the United Ncttions are fighting to bring into ex,lstenc'8 that world of which Washington dreamed when he wrote: 'On th.e occasions I consider how mGflkind may be eonneeted, Uk. one "eat famllYI in f,ot.nal ties' •••• and 'My fln.t wish ISe to ,_ the whot. world in pea¢,e, erwJ the inhobitcmt of it 0$ one bancl of brothW$ striving (to determine) who should contribute mOlt to the happineS$ of monkin•• h is my '·trm bol ief that in the universal QCceptance of demoerQCy we have., the esserdlol of world unity. With free peoples, in free natil)ns where IndiviclUQI rights protect oM enlarge the citizen and where self-restraint and united control pr.erve the nation; a united world is possible. A man must enjoy at least four freedoms to be in any true sense a mo:n. He may give over political rule to one man to make w. or to many men to ,Ian for pMce. He may allow the rich Qr the worker In any community to hove control of ••• 13 Address given on Gftniversory of the American 8trobidicm Com Hotel, May 16, 1944. the tenth mittee at the Waldorf-Astori. |
