Thomas Jefferson agreed and followed Washington, voluntarily stepping aside after his second term, explaining that perpetual ...

The future looks bleak, but it's not certain. Much like the public needs information from the government to function in a ...

George Bush is full of noblesse oblige these days. Last week, after a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress that was 20 parts sunshine patriotism, 40 parts unabashed flag waving, ...

Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms started as fears, or a single “fear of fear itself,” articulated first in his 1933 inaugural speech. Preparing for his 1941 State of the Union speech, Roosevelt ...

I wanted to seek out four perspectives on this complex idea based on FDR's famous Four Freedoms speech – a speech made in 1941 at such a precarious moment for the world. I’m delighted that ...

FDR’s expression of the Four Freedoms became inscribed in the Charter of the United Nations in 1945. Having now reviewed what not to expect in tonight’s speech in light of past SOTU addresses ...

Inspired by President Franklin D Roosevelt’s famous "Four Freedoms" speech, the 2022 Reith Lectures examine freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.