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Starting from Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt defined four freedoms

  * Freedom of speech
  * Freedom of religion
  * Freedom from want
  * Freedom from fear

The last two are the more interesting ones that are often not discussed but which are useful in a wiki context.

Another question:

Do people mean the same thing when they talk about freedom? I know that people use the term democracy in radically different ways, but it might be interesting instead of trying to define freedom to catalog the different definitions out there.

Roadrunner 07:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]