The “Four Freedoms” speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which expressed four crucial freedoms everyone should possess. The freedom to speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. This address was given in January of 1941 which was given ten months before the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. I do believe the timing of his speech was significant, because I perceive its content as a call to action. When I say call to action, I do not mean he is telling Americans to take up arms, however I do believe that he was telling Americans to make a choice. “Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future.” (Roosevelt, pg. 591) Roosevelt gave examples …show more content…
His address was meant to initiate thought and I think he saw a need for Americans to take a side because just throwing our hands up in neutrality anytime there was conflict was going to lead us down a path of new ideology that would be hard to fight as an independent nation. Although President Roosevelt did not tell Americans to take up arms, I believe his “Four Freedoms” speech motivated men to enlist when the United States had its first peace draft. Calling men between ages 21 and 36, their names were drawn and by 1942, the ages broadened to as young as 18. Once Americans realized action needed to take place in order to secure the freedoms most citizens enjoyed, President Franklin’s call to action was mobilized producing ten million in the military, and thirty-four million registered to serve. Roosevelt wanted to show Americans that they could no longer claim to stay neutral and prepared them for the possibility of war. I believe he wanted to not only protect our United States democracy, he wanted to establish America as a democratic world leader. “...we will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be. And when the dictators—if the dictators—are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part.” In my opinion, his “Four Freedoms” speech was a defining moment in U.S. history as we continued to develop our identity to become the nation that we are
This nation’s 26th president, he is well known for many things. Some question whether or not what he accomplished during his presidency term is even worthy of having a face carved into Mount Rushmore. He was a renowned historian, author and naturalist/explorer. Once voted into office, not only was he popular with the people, but he was ready to start all of his new ideas. One of his biggest ones was his idea on foreign policies. Roosevelt firmly believed that the US was going to be a very powerful nation of the world. By doing so, the US needed to gain as much territories as possible. We were able to establish protectorates over spaces such as Guam, the Philippines, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. His edition to the Monroe Doctrine, named the Roosevelt Corollary, was to help with South American affairs. The Latin American country Venezuela, was suffering money issues with Germany and Britain. So to settle the dispute, the Roosevelt Corollary was set up to state that any place in the Western Hemisphere were having financial disputes, the US would be there to support them. They would act as a police man to watch over that area. Though it was maybe in his best intentions, Latin America as a whole grew to not like those terms as much. As well as the creation of the Great Whi...
Through all the different appeals he makes a successful argument for declaring was. He makes many statements that could have only been made by someone who really knew what was going on. With all the facts, he proves that he does know what he is talking about and that everyone should believe him. This speech gave just the right amount of information to be able to let people know what was going on without too much detail that may confuse them.
Roosevelt speech was dictated in his small study on the second floor of the Whitehouse on January 1st, 1941. His speech was founded on the four essential human freedoms; freedom of speech, worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. These freedoms symbolized America’s war aims and gave hope to a war-wearied people as they now knew they were fighting for freedom.
He knows that he will need to target the emotions of the American people to gain their support. Example one, “Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.” Roosevelt used pathos, here, to give America the feeling of unity, which America needed to win against Japan. Example two, “I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.” Here he gets the American people angry and makes them seek revenge against the enemy. By using emotion, he gains mass interest because most listeners will be fueled by what they are
...oing to dictate our freedom: stay strong!” (Fox News Latino). His patriotic speech will forever be remembered because it was something positive for Bostonians to think about despite recent events. His patriotism is the ultimate illustration of the values the United States of America was founded on: “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness” (Slauter).
Roosevelt’s inaugural address focused on the current situation of the nation and he intended to declare war on the Great Depression. He stated a need to move as a nation through his leadership and become a better nation. Roosevelt took a strong stand and proclaimed, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. He looks to the future asking the nation to fulfill their “true destiny” of ministering to themselves and their fellow men.
John F Kennedy delivered one of the finest speeches on January 20, 1961 after being sworn into office. His inauguration speech was so powerful that it captured the entire nations attention, and quotes from it are still remembered by people today. It is one of the finest speeches ever written. It provides a strong appeal to pathos, ethos and logos, and it is because of this that people who never heard the speech can quote lines from it.
It became the most famous speech of Lincoln’s presidency, and one of the most widely quoted speeches in history.
The first inaugural was important because the US nation was at very difficult point, and this was due to crash of banking and financial markets occurred in 1929. This speech represents numerous excellent use of Rhetoric.
What does freedom really mean? Many people today are aware that they have a right to freedom, but do not know what that really means. Religion, speech, press, assembly and petition are the five freedoms that the First Amendment specifically speaks about. Let’s take a look at the definition of each of the five freedoms, what the government says about our freedom, how it is acted out and portrayed in America, and a few case studies involving the different aspects of the First Amendment.
During Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech a war was occuring over in europe. World War 2 to be exact. Beginning at 1939 to 1945 war was about, with Adolf
Ramsis #53 Mon. 4:00-6:40 History 110 Nobiletti 12/12/13 Four freedoms 11 months before the United States of America would declare war on Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech to the American people known as the “four freedoms” on January 6, 1941.1 The main purpose of this speech was to rally support to enter World War 2, however in order to declare war the United States of America had to abandon the isolationist policies that emerged out of WWI. These four freedoms would establish human rights after the war, but more importantly they would resonate throughout the United States for decades after the war. Some of these freedoms have remained the same, and some of these freedoms have changed throughout the years. We will be looking at three periods and comparing how the freedoms varied from each of the three periods.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and President John F. Kennedy (JFK) were both very inspirational people who gave important speeches during their presidency. These men both wrote about their own ideas in each speech they presented. The speech from Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” and Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” both write of their own beliefs of freedom, and their purposes. Although during Roosevelt’s time in 1941 the situation was different from Kennedy’s situation, because Roosevelt was entering WWII and Kennedy was in a cold war.
But Roosevelt never intended to overthrow the constitution, nor did he wish for an end to capitalism and individualism. He harboured the American Dream just like the millions of people who sent him to the White House a record four times. That, indeed, was precisely why they loved him so much: because the American Dream had turned sour in the Great Depression, and they trusted that he would be able to find a way back towards it. As Europe gave in to totalitarianism, the New Deal set out to show that democratic reform represented a viable alternative.
The right to Life, Liberty, and Security, is one of the most important citizen rights that you can have. With the right to life, it means that any individual has the right to live, and shouldn’t be killed by anyone. With the right to Liberty, it means that we have the right to be free, and do almost anything we want. Lastly, the right to security means that you are guaranteed to be protected the best way possible, while you are in that country. Even though it is just one of many rights, they all fall under the right to freedom. Which everyone just wants the right to do what they want, and to stand up for what they believe in. Everyone should have the right to freedom, as well as the right to life, liberty, and security.We felt that this right was the most important because it summed up the rights that we need as citizens. Like the right to not be enslaved, can count as the right to Life and Liberty. So in our opinion, the right to Life, Liberty, and Security, is the one that should be one of the first applied rights to our lives. The next few paragraphs will describe how we feel on these particular rights, as well as examples of how these rights are being violated all over the world.