In Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address (“The Four Freedoms”), the speaker, an American political leader and statesman who served as the thirty-second President of the United States, discusses four underlying freedoms that all people have the right to enjoy. Roosevelt delivered his powerful speech eleven months before the United States declared war on Japan in 1941. His State of the Union speech primarily dealt with the national security of America and the concerning threat to other republics from a war that was being engaged in across the entire eastern hemisphere. In order to achieve the basic human right, freedom, Roosevelt convinced the United States to join the Allied Powers (Briton, France, and the Soviet Union) in a war against the
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It is acknowledged as a basic human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Particularly, freedom of speech is the political liberty to express ideas and sentiments; it includes any act of pursuing, receiving and communicating notions or information, irrespective of the form that is being used. Specifically, Roosevelt expresses that it is a natural-born right that people “everywhere in the world” are entitled to. By way of contrast, Bob Hope—a comedian—recorded a soliloquy for the Four Freedoms show in 1944. Hope states that when Hitler came into power, he set up the Four Freedoms for the German State. According to Hope, Hitler would exclaim that “you’re free to make a speech against Nazism any time you want, but you want to make out your will first.” Hope’s joke suggests exactly what Roosevelt was trying to explain. That is to say, Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address claims “that if the United States ultimately fought against the Axis powers, it would do so not for the purpose of power, or land, or prestige, or influence, but for the improvement of human freedoms across the world” ( Kimble). Not only did Roosevelt intend to implement freedom of speech, but he also expressed the significance of freedom of
It is acknowledged as a basic human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Particularly, freedom of speech is the political liberty to express ideas and sentiments; it includes any act of pursuing, receiving and communicating notions or information, irrespective of the form that is being used. Specifically, Roosevelt expresses that it is a natural-born right that people “everywhere in the world” are entitled to. By way of contrast, Bob Hope—a comedian—recorded a soliloquy for the Four Freedoms show in 1944. Hope states that when Hitler came into power, he set up the Four Freedoms for the German State. According to Hope, Hitler would exclaim that “you’re free to make a speech against Nazism any time you want, but you want to make out your will first.” Hope’s joke suggests exactly what Roosevelt was trying to explain. That is to say, Roosevelt’s State of the Union Address claims “that if the United States ultimately fought against the Axis powers, it would do so not for the purpose of power, or land, or prestige, or influence, but for the improvement of human freedoms across the world” ( Kimble). Not only did Roosevelt intend to implement freedom of speech, but he also expressed the significance of freedom of