 The works were inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a State of the Union Address delivered to the 77th United States Congress on January 6, 1941; the speech itself is often called the Four Freedoms.The Four Freedoms theme was eventually incorporated into the Atlantic Charter, and it became part of the charter of the United Nations.The series of paintings was printed in "The Saturday Evening Post", accompanied by essays from noted writers, on four consecutive weeks in early 1943