Fdr Four Freedom Speech Analysis

Essential American Document Essay

There are many different outlooks on how the government should be and not all of them agree with one another. Many of our presidents have had a different outlook on what they want the government to look like. Many of them expressed themselves in speeches and some in other more violent ways. There are five people that I have read about and have found interest in. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Four Freedom Speech, Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I Woman”, Ronald Reagan: Tear Down The Wall, Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address and Benjamin Franklin On the Faults Of The Constitution (1787).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only person elected to the Presidency four times spanning from the Great Depression to nearly the end of WWII. In 1921 he contracted polio and was put in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, but that didn't stop
It has been said that Franklin was the most influential person in “inventing the type of society America would become.” Benjamin Franklin was also apart of the founding fathers that have made America what it is today. One of the things Benjamin is most famous for is the speech On The Faults Of The Constitution (1787), in this speech he talks about how there are things that he doesn’t agree with in the Constitution. “”It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgement, and to pay more respect to the judgement of others.” Abraham Lincoln On The Faults Of The Constitution. He thinks that the general Government is necessary for us and there is no form of government but what may be blessing to the people if well administered. There must be a government with laws and rules for us to live a happy life. He uses his humor in his speech in use of the negative to state the positive and his assertions that proposed Constitution is better than any other that people could