In President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, known as the Four Freedoms Speech, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" should enjoy:

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Worship

• Freedom from Want

• Freedom from Fear

At a time where the world was in sight of a second global war, Roosevelt's Freedom from Fear referred to a reduction of global armaments so that no one would need to fear aggression from other nations.  In Roosevelt's time, a buildup to war and a strong military could provide a Freedom from Fear. 

Today, we have new fears that have taken hold in society.  We are fearful of an open and public civil dialog for fear of being "Canceled".  We are fearful of a global pandemic.  We're fearful of the media - who promote division and sow fear of anything they can.

In 1964, at the Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan gave one of his most iconic speeches where he said:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

A generation or two later - are we facing that very extinction that Ronald Reagan warned about?  Are we Afraid to be Free?  We must Fight to be Free! 

We must choose FREEDOM over fear!