The Only Limit To Our Realization

This line comes from the Jefferson Day Address that Roosevelt prepared for April 13, 1945 — a speech he never delivered, as he died of a cerebral hemorrhage the preceding day at Warm Springs, Georgia. The text was released posthumously and stands as Roosevelt's final written words to the American public, composed as World War II approached its end in Europe. Its call to move forward "with strong and active faith" is often read as a valediction: a statement of confidence in American resilience from a president who would not live to see the victory he had worked toward.