Rhetorical Analysis Of Ronald Reagan's A Time For Choosing
We Must Fight
Throughout history there have been many great and memorable speeches given by influential people. Presidents, for example, seem to be known and remembered for giving great speeches. One President that comes to my mind is former President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan gave many well-known and historically famous speeches throughout his political career. Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing,” is considered the speech that propelled his political career. The excerpt, “We Must Fight,” concluded the speech and inspired the audience to believe in fighting and not surrendering (Ronald).
During President Reagan’s early life he was a registered Democrat and idolized former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As President Reagan got older …show more content…
The way his voice rises in the speech draws you in. The sayings make you believe, they make you want to fight for our country. I think the quote, “you and I have a rendezvous with destiny,” makes the audience feel a part of something and like they have a purpose in the cause (Ronald). When Reagan states, “Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender”, it speaks directly to the audience he made the speech for, the Democratic Party (Reagan). The speech, I think is meant to get people thinking about is this time a good time for war, also does the positives of war way out the negatives. This saying puts fault for not going to war and trying to make peace, which he considers surrendering, by putting this fault on the Democratic Party. Reagan makes people believe in fighting for our country and not making peace or surrendering. Reagan’s concluding sentence, “We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness,” appeals to the audience’s family and makes us think this is …show more content…
When Reagan speaks, I believe in what he is speaking and I can hear his passion. I chose this type of speech because I enjoy politics and have always thought that President Reagan was a great president. The speech propelled Ronald Reagan’s career and I would consider the message of the speech successful, because people understand the need to fight for our country. The whole speech raised his ethos and raised the belief in fighting for our country in the Cold War. All in all it was a successful rhetoric speech using words and phrases to appeal to the target
Throughout history there have been many great and memorable speeches given by influential people. Presidents, for example, seem to be known and remembered for giving great speeches. One President that comes to my mind is former President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan gave many well-known and historically famous speeches throughout his political career. Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing,” is considered the speech that propelled his political career. The excerpt, “We Must Fight,” concluded the speech and inspired the audience to believe in fighting and not surrendering (Ronald).
During President Reagan’s early life he was a registered Democrat and idolized former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As President Reagan got older …show more content…
The way his voice rises in the speech draws you in. The sayings make you believe, they make you want to fight for our country. I think the quote, “you and I have a rendezvous with destiny,” makes the audience feel a part of something and like they have a purpose in the cause (Ronald). When Reagan states, “Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender”, it speaks directly to the audience he made the speech for, the Democratic Party (Reagan). The speech, I think is meant to get people thinking about is this time a good time for war, also does the positives of war way out the negatives. This saying puts fault for not going to war and trying to make peace, which he considers surrendering, by putting this fault on the Democratic Party. Reagan makes people believe in fighting for our country and not making peace or surrendering. Reagan’s concluding sentence, “We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness,” appeals to the audience’s family and makes us think this is …show more content…
When Reagan speaks, I believe in what he is speaking and I can hear his passion. I chose this type of speech because I enjoy politics and have always thought that President Reagan was a great president. The speech propelled Ronald Reagan’s career and I would consider the message of the speech successful, because people understand the need to fight for our country. The whole speech raised his ethos and raised the belief in fighting for our country in the Cold War. All in all it was a successful rhetoric speech using words and phrases to appeal to the target