Freedom Speech And Kennedy's Inaugural Speech

Today freedom is something that we are born with, but what have the leaders of the United States gone through to ensure this freedom, and garenteing it for future generations? Both Roosevelt's “Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s Inaugural Address how to ensure America’s freedom. However Roosevelt’s speech focuses on how we should be involved in aiding in the war, whereas Kennedy’s speech indicates that we should negotiating with the enemy to prevent the war. “Four Freedoms” is a speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during which World War ll has broke out in Europe. Nazas Germany has only recently invaded Norway, Belgium, and other European countries. American leaders are urging the country to get involved, while others are wanting

Roosevelt states the “first freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world”(59). The president felt that all people should have that same right of speech and expression without being excluded. Franklin also included the second, which is that every person has the ability to worship God in his our way(60). The third is the freedom from want and desire, from economic understandings(61), Roosevelt felt that every country has the right to any market it chooses. “The fourth is the freedom from fear”. With so thinking that it would reduce physical aggression toward any country throughout the world(Roosevelt,

Kennedy states “let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate(15). Kennedy feels that the United States should never involuntary bargain, but to never be afraid to bargain for what you really want. Though now we are called upon-” not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but as a call to bear the burden of a long… year in and a year out… a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself”(23). Kennedy knows that even though we as a country may have difficult time now and ahead, but we as man now have a common enemy to fight. We as man need to retire the idea of a nuclear war against each other and fight the enemy that we all have in common. So “ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country… let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own”(Kennedy, 25 &