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Franklin Roosevelt's Acceptance Speech

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In his speech, Franklin Roosevelt determined the directions of the new politics and the aspects of the state authorities that needed to be changed. He referred to freedom of an individual as the main value of the country and pointed out a new understanding of liberty. Speaking of the state of affairs, he claimed that "Necessitous men are not free men" (Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech). In doing so, he claimed that a person who does not have all the necessary means for life cannot be free as far as the necessity is a kind of restriction, and freedom does not involve restraining. During the depression, the idea of freedom came to the idea of economic security, and Franklin Roosevelt understood it. Under the conditions of the Great Depression, growing
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