英語經(jīng)典美文誦讀100篇：074.the four freedoms
[00:02.71]In the future days, which we seek to make secure,
[00:08.87]we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
[00:19.87]The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
[00:30.75]The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world.
[00:42.78]The third is freedom from want - which, translated into world terms,
[00:50.93]means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants -
[01:03.08]everywhere in the world.
[01:06.89]The fourth is freedom from fear - which, translated into world terms,
[01:15.63]means a world wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion
[01:24.68]that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in the world.
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[01:43.81]That is no vision of a distant millennium.
[01:51.04]It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.
[02:00.06]That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so called new order of tyranny
[02:08.38]which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
[02:15.62]To that new order we oppose the greater conception - the moral order.
[02:23.71]A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
[02:35.99]Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change -
[02:43.31]in a perpetual peaceful revolution - a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions -
[02:57.69]without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch.
[03:05.89]The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries,
[03:12.16]working together in a friendly civilized society.
[03:19.60]This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women;
[03:33.17]and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
[03:44.74]Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is in our unity of purpose.
[03:58.56]To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
