Four Freedoms Speech: An Anti-Isolationist Agenda (Sentences 10-11) Summary

Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner

  • FDR makes the point that since the beginning, the United States has always played major political and military roles in the developments of world history. (In the process, he says a confusing thing about a "Chinese wall," which is a metaphor for isolationism—let it pass.)
  • He tells everyone to think of the children—and the children's children—as motivation for opposing isolationism, which he implies is bad for the future of America.