Compare And Contrast Inaugural Address And The Four Freedoms

In the two short stories, “The Four Freedoms” by Franklin D. Roosevelt and “Inaugural Address” by John F. Kennedy we hear a lot about freedom. In “The Four Freedoms” Franklin talks about how to win the war we must fight for our freedom, and stockpile weapons just like our enemies are doing.Whereas, in “Inaugural Address” John talks about the way to win the war is to try and keep peace. In “Inaugural Address” the role of the president in this short “story” is to try to play the middle man in the war. Not really on either side, just trying to keep the peace there for as long as possible. In paragraph 12 he says “ we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction.” Based on what he says here we can infer that he is going to have to take action if both sides of the war don't come together and have peace in the time of crisis. He also says in paragraph 9, “ to break bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help themselves.” When he says this we can infer that all he wants for his nation is for misery to be gone, and t he also wants everyone to have their freedom back and not have to live in poverty and depression.

In paragraph 19 he says,” We may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted, but we cannot afford to be softhearted.” This means that sometimes they can be “Soft Hearted” and not always resort to violence. They can usually go with the more peaceful plan, but this time they are not gonna be able to be peaceful because they are in such a hard time with the Germans. Also in paragraph 37 he says,” Therefore, the immediate need is a swift and driving increase in our armament production.” This is saying that we need to have more ammunition, more guns, more tanks, more missles, more military defenses and weapons to help us