Freedom From Want, 1943 by Norman Rockwell,Saturday Evening PostCover
One of the Four Freedoms series inspired by a speech by Franklin Roosevelt:
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.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite
basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and
generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of
the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators
seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
excerpted from the Annual Message to the Congress,
January 6, 1941
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