Four Freedom Speech

a. to advise the American people not to get involved in an overseas conflict

b. to remind the American people of the importance of democracy and the need to defend it

c. to advise the American people to build up their defenses but not to panic about the prospect of war

d. to remind the American people that an ocean separates them from the threat posed by dictatorships

a. Except in the Maximilian interlude in Mexico, no foreign power sought to establish itself in this hemisphere; and the strength of the British fleet in the Atlantic has been a friendly strength.

b. Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future.

c. I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders

d. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia and Africa and Australasia will be dominated by conquerors.

a. negotiating with the dictators and aggressors

b. building up its supply of military weapons

c. sending troops overseas to join the fight

d. holding emergency midterm elections