...Roosevelt denied that freedom from want was merely "a vision of a distant millennium." Rather, he said: "It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation." In order to move closer to a world committed to securing freedom from want, the United States helped...

...According to Roosevelt the "Four Freedoms" goals were tangible and by implication, permanent: "That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite...of world attainable in our own time and generation" (Roosevelt, cited in Rollins, 1961:261). In other words, the two approaches share the same basic assumption...

...position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbour - anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite...of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "New Order" of tyranny which the dictators...

...position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite...of world attainable in our own time and generation. . . ,57 At the very time Roosevelt was asserting the imminence of this New Deal Millennium for all...

...aims of the allies in the Atlantic Charter. He stated that the objectives of the Atlantic Charter were no . . . [v]ision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world anainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called...

...neighbor— anywhere in the world." "That is no vision of a distant millennium," Roosevelt declared. "It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation." Harry Truman, Roosevelt's successor, also had a deep sense of responsibility to humanity. When I worked...

.... . "Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere," FDR went on. This new "moral order is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite...world attainable in our own time and generation." Presaging by half a century President Clinton's call for US "engagement" in the "enlargement" of democracy...

...himself, however, insisted in his message to the nation that his grand idea of the Four Freedoms was "a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation" (Roosevelt, 672). Even more grandly, for Roosevelt the Four Freedoms constituted both a renewal of...

...from want; and freedom from fear. These were, he said, not a vision for "a distant millennium," but "a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation."2 William Allen White, the famous newspaper editor, declared with remarkable foresight...

...future generations of Americans. "That is no vision of a distant millennium," he told his audience. "It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation."44 It would be hard to find a greater contrast with that idealistic vision than the words...