This was one of FDR's favorite statements of the Allied Aims. They consisted of: freedom of speech, freedom of warship, freedom of want, and freedom from fear. The actual idea came from a picture made by Norman Rockwell, portraying different values of American life.
Follow @TIME. For our happiness issue, TIME conducted a poll to find out what Americans do to find joy. Overall, 59% of respondents said they were happy most of the time, about the same percentage of those surveyed by TIME in 2004 when 61% said they were happy. But fewer people said they considered themselves optimists in 2013, 50%, as compared to 2004 when 79% called themselves optimists.
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? is one of PRB's most popular articles. First published in 1995 and updated in 2002, this latest 2011 article includes data through mid-2011 and a short video explaining the estimate. (October 2011) The question of how many people have ever lived on Earth is a perennial one among information calls to PRB. One reason the question keeps coming up is that somewhere, at some time back in the 1970s, a writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment.