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"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression–everywhere in the world.The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way–everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want–which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear–which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor–anywhere in the world." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Goup of five offset color lithographic posters. Condition: A-B; creasing from original folds; scattered pinholes in corners; scattered separations along folds; Freedom from Fear worn along right edge. Four posters measuring 28 x 20 in., and one measuring 40 x 28 1/2 in. (71 x 51 cm and 102 x 72 cm).

Complete and scarce suite of Rockwell's iconic series. These images originally appeared on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post in February and March, 1943, and were inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 State of the Union speech.