Refer to Explorations in Literature for the full version of the “Four Freedoms” Speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Read the sentence from "The Four Freedoms."

Taking counsel of expert military and naval authorities, considering what is best for our own security, we are free to decide how much should be kept here and how much should be sent abroad to our friends who by their determined and heroic resistance are giving us time in which to make ready our own defense.

What viewpoint is Roosevelt expressing in the sentence?


The United States will not be able to aid its allies unless it increases arms production.

If the United States aids its allies, the United States will keep control of the process.

The allies may be trying to take advantage of the United States, but the United States will prevent that.

The needs of the allies are so great that the United States should give them all they ask.