Download or read book Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to Congress written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.W. Norton and Co. presents the text of "The Four Freedoms" speech that was delivered by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) to the U.S. Congress on January 6, 1941. Roosevelt described the four essential human freedoms as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.